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1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (color) |
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Oxford Early Christian Studies |
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Oxford early Christian studies.
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List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I . Creative exegesis and the grammatical archive -- 1. Reading as "Creative Exegesis": The Grammarian's Task -- An Atomistic Understanding of Î#x93;Ï#x81;αμμαÏ#x84;ικηÌ#x81; -- Grammatical Exegesis and the Spectrum of Obscurity -- Clarifying Textual Obscurity -- Literary-Critical Tools -- 2. The Grammatical Archive: Creative Exegesis in Antiquity -- Stylistic Ambiguity -- Questions and Answers -- Plausibility -- Propriety -- Textimmanence and the Grammatical Archive -- Conclusion: Creative Exegesis as Archival Thinking -- PART I I . Clement the grammarian -- 3. "Hidden Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge": Reading Clement Reading Scripture -- Knowledge of the Father and the Son (Romans 1) -- "I Will Give You Hidden Treasures" (Isaiah 45:3) -- "The Mystery of God in Christ" (Col. 1-2) -- Isaiah 45:3 and Romans 1 Revisited -- Conclusion: Faith and Knowledge, or the Letter and the Syllables -- 4. Clement's Grammatical Archive: Commentarial Assumptions -- Commentarial Assumptions -- 5. Clement's Grammatical Archive: Commentarial Strategies -- The Textimmanent Intention -- Clarifying Textual Obscurity -- Clarity (Ï#x83;αÏ#x86;ηÌ#x81;Ï#x82;, αÌ#x93;ναÏ#x86;ανÎ́οÌ#x81;ν, Ï#x86;ανεÏ#x81;οÌ#x81;Ï#x82;) -- Explicitness (Î́ιαÏ#x81;Ï#x81;ηÌ#x81;Î́ην, αÌ#x93;Ì#x81;νÏ#x84;ικÏ#x81;Ï#x85;Ï#x82;) -- Textual Coherence -- Definition of Terms -- Conclusion: Commentarial Reading -- Part I I I . Creative exegesis and thememorial archive -- 6. Reading as "Creative Exegesis": Scripture and the Art of Memory -- Exegesis as Invention -- Metaphors for Memory in Antiquity -- Clement's Metaphors for Memory -- 7. Reading as "Creative Exegesis": Scripture and the Art of Recollection -- Recollection as Investigation and Invention -- Clement's Art of Recollection -- Conclusion: Creative Exegesis Is "Inventive" Exegesis -- Part IV. Clement the inventor -- 8. "The Beginning of All Things": A Theological Constellation -- God as First Principle in Post-Hellenistic Philosophy -- God in Clement -- The Logos in Clement -- Conclusion: A Theological Constellation of Unity -- 9. "Faith in the Only Perfect Man": An Economical Constellation -- Theological Anthropology in the Paedagogus -- Theological Anthropology in Stromateis 5 -- An Economical Constellation: "Taste and See the Mystery of Christ" -- 10. "Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom": A Hermeneutical Constellation -- "I Will Teach You the Fear of the Lord": Fear and Its Textual Constellations in the Protrepticus -- "He Weaves the Thread of Fear into Everything": Fear and Clement's Hermeneutical Constellation in the Paedagogus -- Christian Scripture in Pedagogical Mode -- "When a Man Loves Wisdom, His Father Will Be Pleased": Wisdom and Clement's Hermeneutical Constellation in the Stromateis -- Christian Scripture in Didactic Mode -- Addendum: Fear, Wisdom, and Clement's "Literary Problem" -- Conclusion: The Complexity and Aid of Textual Constellations -- 11. Epilogue: Clement, the Commentarial Theologian -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Index Nominum et Rerum |
| Summary |
How might one describe early Christian exegesis? This question has given rise to a significant reassessment of patristic exegetical practice in recent decades, and the present book makes a new contribution to this reappraisal of patristic exegesis against the background of ancient Greco-Roman education. In tracing the practices of literary analysis and rhetorical memory in the ancient sources, this book argues that there were two modes of archival thinking at the heart of the ancient exegetical enterprise: the grammatical archive, a repository of the textual practices learned from the grammarian, and the memorial archive, the constellations of textual memories from which meaning is constructed. In a new treatment of the theological exegesis of Clement of Alexandria-the first study of its kind in English scholarship-this book suggests that an assessment of the reading practices that Clement employs from these two ancient archives reveals his deep commitment to scriptural interpretation as the foundation of a theological imagination. Clement employs various textual practices from the grammatical archive to navigate the spectrum between the clarity and obscurity of Scripture, which results in the striking conclusion that the figurative referent of Scripture is one twofold mystery, bound up in the Incarnation of Christ and the higher knowledge of the divine life. This twofold scriptural mystery is discovered in an act of rhetorical invention as Clement reads Scripture to uncover the constellations of texts-about God, Christ, and humanity-that frame its entire narrative |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on June 30, 2023) |
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Clement, of Alexandria, Saint, approximately 150-approximately 215.
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| SUBJECT |
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013622
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Hermeneutics.
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Hermeneutics.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191954252 |
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019195425X |
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9780192678119 |
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0192678116 |
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