TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blossom Stefaniw
PY  - 2011
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653001877
TI  - Mind, Text, and Commentary
T2  - Noetic Exegesis in Origen of Alexandria, Didymus the Blind, and Evagrius Ponticus
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-00187-7
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1044309
N2  - Scholarship on early Christian exegesis is full of puzzlement at the commentator’s apparent lack of concern for the literal or historical meaning of the text, usually explained as the result of an illegitimate allegorical method. This study comes to grips with the particularities of this type of interpretation by using tools from ethnography and literary criticism. By analysing the commentator’s interpretive assumptions and the framework of significances within which the commentaries were produced and read, the author is able to solve a chronic problem in the study of early Christian exegesis. Further, she articulates the social context of the performance of noetic exegesis and its significance for monastic teachers, philosophers, and their audiences.
KW  - allegorical exegesis, philosophical education, monastic teaching, biblical commentary
LA  - English
ER  -