The Disunity and Unity of the Psalter in the Fathers
Origen, Eusebius, Didymus, Diodore, and Gregory of Nyssaamong other Christian interpreters of the psalmsstand in a tradition of envisioning the Psalter as a theological unity. These claims to the unity of the book of Psalms come about through struggling with its disunity, which appears in many cas...
| Published in: | Journal of theological interpretation |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
2016
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Journal of theological interpretation
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology
B Soul music B Psalms B Sacred Texts B Writers B Bible B Christianity B Church Fathers B Treatises B Neoplatonism |
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| Summary: | Origen, Eusebius, Didymus, Diodore, and Gregory of Nyssaamong other Christian interpreters of the psalmsstand in a tradition of envisioning the Psalter as a theological unity. These claims to the unity of the book of Psalms come about through struggling with its disunity, which appears in many cases to be a problem that needs solving. Not all come to similar conclusions as to the mechanism of this unity. Still, its coherence as divine revelation is clearly established at the latest by the time of Gregory of Nyssa's writing of his In inscriptiones Psalmorum. Further, this unity of the Psalter is conceived of as primarily Christian, rather than simply something inherited from Hellenic (mostly Neoplatonic) understandings of literary unity. |
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| ISSN: | 2576-7933 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of theological interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/26373986 |