The multiple meaning of scripture : the role of exegesis in early Christian and medieval culture / / edited by Ineke van 't Spijker.

• Superior document: Commentaria, v. 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Spijker, Ienje van 't, 1954-
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Commentaria (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 2.
• Physical Description: vi, 341 p.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

From the beginning of the Christian era and throughout the Middle Ages, biblical interpretation was the field where theological, philosophical and political matters were discussed. At the same time Scripture’s interpretation required the exploration of hermeneutical positions about how a literal and a hidden meaning could be established and how they related to each other. Ranging from early-Christian concerns about the text of the Bible itself, via Carolingian biblical commentaries, and the ever more diverse interpretations from the twelfth century and onwards, to the literary implications of (Jewish) commentary, the articles in this volume examine biblical exegesis both as a discourse on theology, philosophy and politics, and as the context for discussions on its underlying interpretative principles. Contributors are J. K. Kitchen, Katja Vehlow, Caroline Chevalier-Royet, Sumi Shimahara, Ian Christopher Levy, Pierre Boucaud, Elisabeth Mégier, Cédric Giraud, Wanda Zemler-Cizewski, Ineke van ’t Spijker, Eva De Visscher, Alexander Fidora, Frans van Liere, and Robert A. Harris.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Ineke van 't Spijker -- Exegesis as a cultural framework -- Variants, Arians, and the trace of Mark : Jerome and Ambrose on "neque fi lius" in Matthew 24:36 / J.K. Kitchen -- The rabbinic legend of the Septuagint in Abraham ibn Daud's writings / Katja Vehlow -- Saul et David, premiers rois oints : l'interpretation de ces modeles royaux par deux exegetes carolingiens, Raban Maur et Angelome de Luxeuil / Caroline Chevalier-Royet -- La representation du pouvoir seculier chez Haymon d'Auxerre / Sumi Shimahara -- Trinity and christology in Haimo of Auxerre's Pauline commentaries / Ian Christopher Levy -- Factus est homo in animam uiuentem : anthropologie chretienne et psychologie dans l'exegese de Claude de Turin, ca. 827-828 / Pierre Boucaud -- The multiple meaning of scripture -- Spiritual exegesis and the church in Haimo of Auxerre's commentary on Isaiah / Elisabeth Megier -- Lectiones magistri anselmi : les commentaires d'Anselme de Laon sur le cantique des cantiques / Cedric Giraud -- The literal sense of scripture according to Rupert of Deutz / Wanda Zemler-Cizewski -- The literal and the spiritual : Richard of Saint-Victor and the multiple meaning of scripture / Ineke van 't Spijker -- "Closer to the hebrew" : Herbert of Bosham's interpretation of literal exegesis / Eva de Visscher -- ". . . mysteria magis delectant . . ." die exegese des zisterzienserabtes Isaak von Stella, ca. 1178 / Alexander Fidora -- Andrew of Saint-Victor and his Franciscan critics / Frans van Liere -- Twelfth-century biblical exegetes and the invention of literature / Robert A. Harris.