Petri Abaelardi Opera Theologica, 5: Exposito in Hexameron. Edited by Mary Romig with the assistance of David Luscombe. Abbreviatio Petri Abaelardi Expositionis in Hexameron. Edited by Charles Burnett with the assistance of David Luscombe. Pp. lxxxvi + 170. (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, 15.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2004. isbn 2 503 03151 X. €120
‘To Heloise, once dear in the world, now most dear in Christ’ (p. 4): it is a rare lover who sends his beloved a commentary he has written for her on the Book of Genesis, and even more rare is the woman who would ask that of her former lover. In the mid-1130s, after Heloise and her nuns had settled...
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Oxford University Press
2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 349-351 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Abaelard, Peter, 1079-1142, Petri Abaelardi Opera theologica. 5, Expositio in hexameron] (2007) (Heyder, Regina, 1966 -)
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| Review of: | Petri Abaelardi Opera theologica ; 5: Expositio in hexameron (Turnholti : Brepols, 2004) (Ward, Benedicta)
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| Summary: | ‘To Heloise, once dear in the world, now most dear in Christ’ (p. 4): it is a rare lover who sends his beloved a commentary he has written for her on the Book of Genesis, and even more rare is the woman who would ask that of her former lover. In the mid-1130s, after Heloise and her nuns had settled at the Paraclete, Peter Abelard composed for them a commentary which would explain Augustine's classic work De Genesi ad Litteram. Heloise had asked for this and so Abelard composed a literal, grammatical exposition of the text of the Hexameron. This was very much in line with Heloise's scholarly interests; her earlier letter asking Abelard to find for her a Psalter was for a more accurate text, not for a more spiritual exposition. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flj054 |