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Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity

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Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity book

The Alexandrian Commentary Tradition between Rome and Baghdad

Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity

DOI link for Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity

Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity book

The Alexandrian Commentary Tradition between Rome and Baghdad
ByJosef Lössl
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 23 May 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315589619
Pages 360 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315589619
SubjectsHumanities
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Watt, J. (Ed.), Lössl, J. (2011). Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315589619

This book brings together sixteen studies by internationally renowned scholars on the origins and early development of the Latin and Syriac biblical and philosophical commentary traditions. It casts light on the work of the founder of philosophical biblical commentary, Origen of Alexandria, and traces the developments of fourth- and fifth-century Latin commentary techniques in writers such as Marius Victorinus, Jerome and Boethius. The focus then moves east, to the beginnings of Syriac philosophical commentary and its relationship to theology in the works of Sergius of Reshaina, Probus and Paul the Persian, and the influence of this continuing tradition in the East up to the Arabic writings of al-Farabi. There are also chapters on the practice of teaching Aristotelian and Platonic philosophy in fifth-century Alexandria, on contemporaneous developments among Byzantine thinkers, and on the connections in Latin and Syriac traditions between translation (from Greek) and commentary. With its enormous breadth and the groundbreaking originality of its contributions, this volume is an indispensable resource not only for specialists, but also for all students and scholars interested in late-antique intellectual history, especially the practice of teaching and studying philosophy, the philosophical exegesis of the Bible, and the role of commentary in the post-Hellenistic world as far as the classical renaissance in Islam.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

WithJosef Lössl, John Watt

part |2 pages

Part 1: Alexandria to Rome

chapter 1|20 pages

Origen: Exegesis and Philosophy in Early Christian Alexandria

WithAlfons Fürst

chapter 2|16 pages

Prologue Topics and Translation Problems in Latin Commentaries on Paul

chapter 3|18 pages

Ambrosiaster’s Method of Interpretation in the Questions on the Old and New Testament

chapter 4|24 pages

Philosophical Exegesis in Marius Victorinus’ Commentaries on Paul

chapter 5|20 pages

Jerome’s Pauline Commentaries between East and West: Tradition and Innovation in the Commentary on Galatians

chapter 6|10 pages

The Bible and Aristotle in the Controversy Between Augustine and Julian of Aeclanum

chapter 7|14 pages

Boethius as a Translator and Aristotelian Commentator

WithSten Ebbesen

part |2 pages

Part 2: Alexandria to Baghdad

chapter 8|14 pages

Translating the Personal Aspect of Late Platonism in the Commentary Tradition

chapter 9|14 pages

Aristotelianism and the Disintegration of the Late Antique Theological Discourse

chapter 10|14 pages

Sergius of Reshaina as Translator: The Case of the De Mundo

WithAdam McCollum

chapter 11|16 pages

Sergius of Reshaina and Pseudo-Dionysius: A Dialectical Fidelity

WithEmiliano Fiori

chapter 12|12 pages

The Commentator Probus: Problems of Date and Identity

WithSebastian Brock

chapter 13|18 pages

Du commentaire à la reconstruction: Paul le Perse interprète d’Aristote(sur une lecture du Peri Hermeneias, à propos des modes et des adverbes selon Paul, Ammonius et Boèce)

chapter 14|14 pages

The Genesis and Development of a Logical Lexicon in the Syriac Tradition

chapter 15|20 pages

From Sergius to Mattā: Aristotle and Pseudo-Dionysius in the Syriac Tradition

chapter 16|28 pages

Al-Fārābī’s Arguments for the Eternity of the World and the Contingency of Natural Phenomena

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