Symbolic drama of passage: envisioning scriptural interpretation as a symbolic act with Origen of Alexandria
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Origen, a Public Theologian -- 1.1 Origen and Symbol -- 1.2 Origen and Allegory -- 1.3 Outline and Approach -- 1.4 Origen, A Public Theologian -- Chapter 2 "To Speak in a Manner Proper to the Σύμβολον": Orige...
| Summary: | Intro -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Origen, a Public Theologian -- 1.1 Origen and Symbol -- 1.2 Origen and Allegory -- 1.3 Outline and Approach -- 1.4 Origen, A Public Theologian -- Chapter 2 "To Speak in a Manner Proper to the Σύμβολον": Origen's Rereading and Reenacting of the Passover Narrative in Peri Pascha -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Problematizing the Passover Reading in the Post-70 Context -- 2.3 Origen's Tripartite Hermeneutics -- 2.4 The Tripartite Hermeneutics Applied to the Structure and Flow of Peri Pascha -- 2.5 Rereading and Reenacting with the Blood, the Water, and the Logos -- 2.6 Rereading and Reenacting with the Lamb, Scripture, and the Logos -- 2.7 Rereading and Reenacting with a Once-a-Year, Daily, and Once-for-All Sacrifices -- 2.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 "The Truth in Enigmas, and Symbols, and Allegories": Semantic Origins and Genealogies of Σύμβολον, Reconstructed by its Kindred Terms -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Common Cosmological Grounds and Questions -- 3.3 Semantic Origins of Σύμβολον -- 3.4 Semantic Genealogies of Σύμβολον -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 "One Complete Body of the Word": Christian Genealogy of Σύμβολον, Reconstructed from Origen's Contra Celsum -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Origen's Contra Celsum as a Site for Reconstruction -- 4.3 Origen's Christian Genealogy of Σύμβολον, Reconstructed by its Kindred Terms -- 4.4 Interpretation as a Symbolic Act of Comparing and Matching -- 4.5 Interpretation as a Symbolic Act for Θεωρία -- 4.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 "Linking up the Words of the Torah with One Another": Origen's Witness to Rabbinic Literal Allegory Carried Out in a Symbolic Manner -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Origen and the Rabbis -- 5.3 Rereading the Passover Narrative with the Mekiltot -- 5.4 Reenacting the Passover Narrative with the Mishnah. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (158 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-3-657-79342-6 |
