“Exegetical Torture” in Early Christian Biblical Interpretation: The Case of Origen of Alexandria
This essay engages Page duBois’s work on torture and truth to contextualize a curious logic in Origen of Alexandria’s exegetical method. That logic insisted on “torturing” (Greek, basanos) the text in the style of a forensic investigation. From Thucydides to Galen and Origen, this vocabulary of exeg...
| Subtitles: | Redrawing the Boundaries |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Biblical interpretation
Year: 2017, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 39-57 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
| Further subjects: | B
basanos
Galen of Pergamum
Origen of Alexandria
slavery
torture
truth
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
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