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This collection of fifteen articles, concentrating on the early Latin Middle Ages, explores the variety of medieval exegesis and highlights just how patchy has been our understanding of it. One of the significant developments in recent scholarship was the awareness among historians of ideas, historians of theology, and medievalists of the importanc
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Contents: Preface; Introduction; Part 1 Processing the Patristic Inheritance: 'Aquae super caelos (Gen 1:6-7): the first faith-science debate?; The controversy over Methuselah's death: proto-chronology and the origins of the western concept of inerrancy; Adam's burial at Hebron: some aspects of its significance in the Latin tradition; A woman's plight and the western fathers. Part 2 Developing New Exegetical Strategies: Julian of Toledo's Antikeimenon and the development of Latin Exegesis; The exegetical purpose of Adomnán's De Locis Sanctis; The symbol gives life: Eucherius of Lyons' formula for exegesis; Biblical contradictions in the Periphyseon and the development of Eriugena's method; The plan of the New Jerusalem in the Book of Armagh. Part 3 Exegesis as a Practice: Adam's Rib and the equality of the sexes: some medieval exegesis of Gen 2:21-22; The waters above the heavens, Isidore, and the Latin tradition; Seeking the early medieval view on the Song of Songs; The gates of Hell: from metaphor to fact; The mysticism of number in the medieval period before Eriugena; Individual anonymity and collective identity: the enigma of early medieval Latin theologians; Indexes.
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Thomas O'Loughlin is Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Summary
This collection of fifteen articles, concentrating on the early Latin Middle Ages, explores the variety of medieval exegesis and highlights just how patchy has been our understanding of it. One of the significant developments in recent scholarship was the awareness among historians of ideas, historians of theology, and medievalists of the importanc
