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Origen on the Song of Songs as the Spirit of Scripture: The Bridegroom's Perfect Marriage-Song


Origen on the Song of Songs as the Spirit of Scripture: The Bridegroom's Perfect Marriage-Song

Hardback by King, J. Christopher (past Member of the Bishop's Staff, Espiscopal Diocese of New York)

Origen on the Song of Songs as the Spirit of Scripture: The Bridegroom's Perfect Marriage-Song

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ISBN:
9780199272181
Publication Date:
6 Oct 2005
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pages:
306 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 24 - 29 May 2024
Origen on the Song of Songs as the Spirit of Scripture: The Bridegroom's Perfect Marriage-Song

Description

Christian exegesis of the Song of Songs has long interacted creatively with - and, more recently, reacted critically against - the allegorical interpretation developed by Origen of Alexandria (c.185-c.254) in his Commentary and two Homilies on the Song of Songs. Interest in Origen's exegesis of the Song's narrative elements has dominated past scholarship, which has almost entirely ignored how Origen assesses the Song itself, in its unity as a revealed text. This study aims to show that the Commentary and Homilies - when read in light of Origen's hermeneutic, his nuptial theology, his understanding of the prophetic mediation of inspired texts, and his doctrine of last things - clearly portray the Song of Songs itself as the divine Bridegroom's perfect marriage-song. As such, it mediates Christ's eschatological presence, as the `spirit' of Scripture, in and through the intelligible structures of the text itself.

Contents

1. Introduction ; 2. Origen and the spiritual reading of the Song of Songs ; 3. Origen, the nuptial motif, and the Song of Songs ; 4. Origen's grounds for the wholly spiritual reading of the Song of Songs ; 5. Origen on the hermeneutical unity of the Song of Songs ; 6. Origen on the hermeneutical finality of the Song of Songs ; 7. Conclusion: the Song of Songs as the spirit of Scripture

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