RT Article
T1 Hugh of St. Victor and the Ark of Noah: A New Look
JF Church history
VO 40
IS 3
SP 261
OP 272
A1 Zinn, Grover A. 1937-
LA English
YR 1971
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1779560419
AB 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.
DO 10.2307/3163002