Hugh of St. Victor and the Ark of Noah: A @New Look
The treatise De area Noe morali by Hugh of St. Victor (d. 1141) contains a short but significant piece of literal exegesis concerning Noah's Ark. This seemingly slight example of Victorine exegesis is of considerable intrinsic merit for in it Hugh ventured to criticize an accepted exegetical “a...
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Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
[1971]
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Church history
Year: 1971, Volume: 40, Issue: 3, Pages: 261-272 |
IxTheo Classification: | KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages |
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Summary: | The treatise De area Noe morali by Hugh of St. Victor (d. 1141) contains a short but significant piece of literal exegesis concerning Noah's Ark. This seemingly slight example of Victorine exegesis is of considerable intrinsic merit for in it Hugh ventured to criticize an accepted exegetical “authority” and offered in its place his own interpretation of the passage. It is the purpose of this article to examine Hugh's criticism of the traditional exegesis and his positive contributions through the correlation of reason, auctoritas, and a fresh examination of the literal sense of Genesis VI. |
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ISSN: | 0009-6407 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3163002 |