Greek and Byzantine Philosophical Exegesis

Edited by Athanasios Despotis and James Buchanan Wallace.

Philosophy is an enterprise that was construed in various ways by early Christian theologians. These essays examine the relation between philosophy, the New Testament and the exegetical works of patristic interpreters. Though scholars often recognize the significance of philosophical traditions for allegorical interpretation, they have paid less attention to early Christianity as a kind of ancient philosophy, i.e., a philosophical way of life and art of exegesis. This volume scrutinizes in new depth how early Christian authors integrated philosophical concepts and practices into their interpretation. -- From the content: 1. Athanasios Despotis/James Buchanan Wallace: Introduction: The Early Christian Philosophy as a Way of Life and an Art of Exegesis; - 2. Athanasios Despotis: Jesus als neuer Sokrates in Joh 1-12; - 3. Ilaria L.E. Ramelli: The Question of Origen’s Conversion, His Concept of Conversion, and Its Relevance to His Biblical Exegesis; - 4. Ilaria L.E. Ramelli: The Strategy and Functions of Philosophical Exegesis in Origen of Alexandria; - 5. Georgiana Huian: Between the Mirror and the Face: Gregory of Nazianzus and Augustine on 1 Cor 13:12; - 6. Taylor Ross: The Inextricability of Hermeneutics and Metaphysics in Late Neoplatonism and Patristic Theology; - 7. Robert G.T. Edwards: Providence, Ethics, and Exempla: Reassessing the Stoicism of John Chrysostom’s 'Quod nemo laeditur nisi a se ipso; - 8. Vladimir Cvetković: The Towers of Jerusalem and Ontological Presuppositions of Creation: Exegesis and Philosophy in Maximus the Confessor’s Quaestiones ad Thalassium; - 9. Rainer Hirsch-Luipold: Afterword. VI,283 Seiten, gebunden (Eastern Church Identities; Vol. 5/Brill | Schöningh 2022) Mängelexemplarstempel auf Schnitt, Ecken und Kanten etwas bestoßen/defect copy stamp on cut, somewhat bumped