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Products>Origen and Scripture: The Contours of the Exegetical Life (Oxford Early Christian Studies)

Origen and Scripture: The Contours of the Exegetical Life (Oxford Early Christian Studies)

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, 2012
ISBN: 9780199639557
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Scriptural interpretation was an important form of scholarship for Christians in late antiquity. For no one does this claim ring more true than Origen of Alexandria (185–254), one of the most prolific scholars of Scripture in early Christianity. This book examines his approach to the Bible through a biographical lens: the focus is on his account of the scriptural interpreter, the animating center of the exegetical enterprise. In pursuing this largely neglected line of inquiry, the book discloses the contours of Origen’s sweeping vision of scriptural exegesis as a way of life. For him, ideal interpreters were far more than philologists steeped in the skills conveyed by Greco-Roman education. Their profile also included a commitment to Christianity from which they gathered a spectrum of loyalties, guidelines, dispositions, relationships, and doctrines that tangibly shaped how they practiced and thought about their biblical scholarship. This study explores the many ways in which Origen thought ideal scriptural interpreters (himself included) embarked upon a way of life, indeed a way of salvation, culminating in the everlasting contemplation of God. This new and integrative thesis takes seriously how the discipline of scriptural interpretation was envisioned by one of its pioneering and most influential practitioners.

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  • Title: Origen and Scripture: The Contours of the Exegetical Life
  • Author: Peter W. Martens
  • Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Print Publication Date: 2012
  • Logos Release Date: 2015
  • Language: English
  • Resources: 1
  • Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
  • Subjects: Origen; Bible. N.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Church history › Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
  • ISBNs: 9780199639557, 0199639558
  • Resource ID: LLS:RGNSCRPTRXGTCLF
  • Resource Type: Monograph
  • Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:46:27Z

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  1. TheChosenOne

    TheChosenOne

    1/18/2025

    I have certified that I read this book fully. This was an academic book that is accessible at the same time. The structure of the book is easy to read and provides direction to where the author is going. Each chapter begins with a summary with the main argument of the chapter, thus providing a framework to see how the argument is structured. This makes it easy to Comprehend, something that I will now sorely miss in the other books. The book has footnotes galore. So much references, elaborations and miscellaneous thoughts. Content wise, this book is absolutely superb. I've only known Origen as the allegorist. But after reading this book, i truly can sympathise and see that he actually at times is a misunderstood genius working in a differing framework. Obviously, I don't think we can adopt his methodology entirely, but given the framework that they were in. I think that this book continviced me that he was on the right track to an orthodox method. What struck me lastly was how integrated the aspect of doing interpretation. For origen, interpreting the bible is NOT a rationalistic endeavour only. It involved morality, prayer, skill. It was his devotion unto God. Truth be told, I walked away very inspired by this figure. It was a lovely book.
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