Sep 2026· Philologus (Berlin)· 0 citations· 28 references
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Abstract This article argues that vocabulary drawn from Origen is crucial for understanding the opening section of Gregory’s poem On His Own Verses, a poem central to his self-conscious articulation of a classicizing Christian poetics. It also adopts a transposition proposed by Nigel G. Wilson and presents a revised text, together with a translation and commentary on selected passages. Gregory’s argument may be summarized as follows: he expresses regret that he did not advise people in time against attempting exegesis, since writing about God is not for most, who can at best reach only the literal or lower senses, which can never yield unassailable explanations of Scripture. Since the world is already full of heretical interpretations, one remaining response – by way of further disseminating sound readings of Scripture – is to recast part of his prose works in verse.
The most convincing, though not absolutely provable, reading of The Third and Last Dedication to Poem Without a Hero connects it with Isaiah Berlin. This attribution is based not on a single document, but on the convergence of several lines of evidence: the text's dating from January 5, 1956; the "non-husband" motif, w...
This study examines Isaiah 26.16 within the broader context of Isa. 24–27, a proto-apocalyptic composition depicting YHWH’s universal judgment and victory over death. The verse has traditionally been understood as a whispered penitential prayer and has long been regarded as obscure and syntactically problematic. Throug...
Galia Semo· Journal for the Study of the...· 0 citations
This article re-examines the account of ascent to the “third heaven” in 2 Cor 12:2‒4, traditionally read as Paul’s autobiographical report of a visionary experience. Although widely accepted, this interpretation leaves unresolved tensions, including the protagonist’s anonymity, narrative repetition, lack of descriptive...
Abstract:Gregory of Nyssa’s theory of matter has been the object of a sustained debate since the beginning of modern patristic scholarship. Based on a passage in his Apologia in Hexaemeron, he has been assumed to defend the position, previously rejected by Origen and Plotinus, that matter is nothing but the coming-toge...
T. Heinbokel· Journal of Early Christian S...· 0 citations
summary:This article puts forward a new reading of Gregory of Nazianzus's long autobiographical poem On His Own Life (De vita sua). The poorly understood and depreciated aspects of this work—including the classicizing yet relatively exoteric meter, the recriminations against friends and colleagues, the historiographica...
B. Maslov· TAPA· 0 citations
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