Manlio Simonetti

An Historical Introduction to Patristic Exegesis

Biblical Interpretation in the Early Church

Thomas C. Oden

Marco Conti

The book of Job presents its readers with a profound drama concerning innocent suffering. Such honest, forthright wrestling with the problem of evil and the silence of God has intrigued a wide gamut of readers both religious and nonreligious. Surprisingly, the earliest church fathers showed little interest in the book of Job. Not until Origen in the early third century is there much evidence of any systematic treatment of the book, and most of Origen's treatment is known to us only from the catenae. More intense interest came at the end of the fourth century and the beginning of the fifth. The excerpts in this Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture volume focus on systematic treatment. Among Greek texts are those from Origen, Didymus the Blind, Julian the Arian, John Chrysostom, Hesychius of Jerusalem, and Olympiodorus. Among Latin sources we find Julian of Eclanum, Philip the Priest, and Gregory the Great. Among Syriac sources we find Ephrem the Syrian and Isho'dad of Merv, some of whose work is made available here for the first time in English. In store for readers of this volume is a great feast of wisdom from the ancient resources of the church with fresh relevance for today.

un contributo alla storia dell'esegesi patristica

Lettera e/o allegoria

The book of Job presents its readers with a profound drama concerning innocent suffering. Surprisingly, the earliest church fathers showed little interest in the book until Origen in the early third century and more intense interest at the end of the fourth. This ACCS volume offers a great feast of wisdom from the ancient resources of the church with fresh relevance for today.

Origenes

Testo, traduzione e cura delle due omelie di Origene sul Cantico dei Cantici nella traduzione latina di Girolamo.

Cantico dei cantici

The Gospel of Matthew stands out as a favorite biblical text among patristic commentators, including Origen, Hilary of Poitiers, Jerome, Theodore of Heraclea, Cyril of Alexandria, John Chrysostom, Augustine, and more. In this ACCS volume, the rich abundance of patristic comment provides a feast of ancient interpretation of the First Gospel.

Matthew 1-13

Emanuela Prinzivalli

profilo storico, antologia di testi e due saggi inediti in appendice

Letteratura cristiana antica

"L'intera trattazione è articolata in due parti. La Parte Prima prende in considerazione i secoli I-III: si apre con la presentazione delle "Forme letterarie in prosa delle origini cristiane" e si chiude con la "Letteratura agiografica". La Parte Seconda è dedicata ai secoli IV e V e giunge sino al 450: si apre descrivendo i "Caratteri generali della letteratura cristiana d'età tardoantica" e termina con i "Continuatori e avverari di Agostino". Nella Presentazione vengono indicate le ragioni sottese a questa periodizzazione. La sintesi di una materia così vasta è un'impresa ardua: ci auguriamo di essere riusciti a coniugare la chiarezza espositiva con un'aggiornata, seppur rapida, informazione sulo stato degli studi italiani e stranieri. Nello stesso tempo non abbiamo mai rinunciato a proporre una personale valutazione dei singoli autori e fenomeni trattati. In questa nuova edizione, che esce a dieci anni di distanza dalla precedente, abbiamo apportato, dopo un'attenta revisione condotta insieme, alcune modifiche, soprattutto in relazione all'ulteriore sviluppo degli studi all'estero e in Italia: sviluppo, quest'ultimo, significativo e particolarmente meritevole, stanti le crescenti dolorose difficoltà del quadro istituzionale della ricerca italiana. Ci auguriamo di aver fatto cosa utile, fornedo un ausilio ai docenti e una via di accesso agevole per chi desidera conoscere una letteratura cosi ricca e importante così ricca e importante per la cultura dell'Occidente."--

Storia della letteratura cristiana antica

The Gospel of Matthew stands out as a favorite biblical text among patristic commentators. The patristic commentary tradition on Matthew begins with Origen's pioneering twenty-five-volume commentary on the First Gospel in the mid-third century. In the Latin-speaking West, where commentaries did not appear until about a century later, the first commentary on Matthew was written by Hilary of Poitiers in the mid-fourth century. From that point, the First Gospel became one of the texts most frequently commented on in patristic exegesis. Outstanding examples are Jerome's four-volume commentary and the valuable but anonymous and incomplete Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum. Then there are the Greek catena fragments derived from commentaries by Theodore of Heraclea, Apollinaris of Laodicea, Theodore of Mopsuestia and Cyril of Alexandria. The ancient homilies also provide ample comment, including John Chrysostom's ninety homilies and Chromatius of Aquileia's fifty-nine homilies on the Gospel of Matthew. In addition, there are various Sunday and feast-day homilies from towering figures such as Augustine and Gregory the Great, as well as other fathers. This rich abundance of patristic comment, much of it presented here in English translation for the first time by editor Manlio Simonetti, provides a bountiful and varied feast of ancient interpretation of the First Gospel.

Manlio Simonetti

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