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Ein Psalmenkommentar Haimos von Auxerre:

von Petrus W. Tax (Autor:in)
10 Seiten
Open Access
Journal: Mediaevistik Band 32 Ausgabe 1 Jahr 2019 pp. 227 - 236

Zusammenfassung

In a 1945 article the discovery of a genuine Psalms commentary by Remigius of Auxerre was announced, even in two versions. But it could be shown that only version 2 was genuine. Then the question arose whether Remigius was the author of this commentary or another Auxerre exegete. Already at the end of the fifteenth century the very learned biographer and bibliographer Trithemius had ascribed a Psalm commentary”lib. 1” to Haimo (of Halberstadt, whom he confused with Haimo of Auxerre). Further research showed that there are indeed many common features between the text of this version 2 Psalms commentary and the writings of Haimo of Auxerre, especially his Ezechiel commentary and his “Scolia quaestionum,” a collection of excerpts, often containing solutions of exegetical problems, which Haimo frequently used in his exegesis. These common features consist not only of the same use of exegetical themes such as the Last Judgment but also of criticism of worldly as well as ecclesiastical authorities, references to old heresies and showing their impact in modern times, the pointing out of irony, the interest in titles of rulers in the East and the West, the treatment of unusual topics such as cannibalism, and a common stylistic feature: the consistent use of ‘

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10
DOI
10.3726/med.2019.01.10

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Petrus W. Tax (Autor:in)

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