Homilies on Numbers

Thomas P. Scheck, Christopher A. Hall (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

196 Seiten

2009
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-2905-7 (ISBN)

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Origen of Alexandria (185-254), one of the most prolific authors of antiquity and arguably the most important and influential pre-Nicene Christian theologian, was a man of deep learning and holiness of life. Regrettably, many of his works are no longer extant, in part due to the condemnation of his ideas by the Fifth Ecumenical Council in 553. The condemnation, however, took little account of his historical circumstances and the tentative nature of his speculations. The anathemas were more likely directed toward sixth-century Origenist views than to the views of Origen himself, though clearly he expounded some views that would be judged unacceptable today.
Origen's numerous homilies provide the oldest surviving corpus of Christian sermons and shaped exegesis for succeeding centuries. With Jerome he was one of the early church's great critical and literal exegetes. Devoutly he sought to develop a spiritual exegesis of the Old Testament grounded in the revelation of Jesus Christ. The Homilies on Numbers presented here offer a splendid example of his spiritual interpretation of Old Testament texts. He asks, What foreshadowing, what warning, what instruction, what encouragement, reproof, correction or exhortation, do we find in the narratives of Numbers for our benefit as Christians?
Here, based on Baehren's critical Latin text, is the first English edition of these homilies, ably translated with explanatory notes by Thomas P. Scheck.
Ancient Christian Texts are new English translations of full-length commentaries or sermon series from ancient Christian authors that allow you to study key writings of the early church fathers in a fresh way.

Origen was an early Christian scholar, theologian, and one of the most distinguished of the early fathers of the Christian Church. Thomas P. Scheck (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is assistant professor of classics and theology at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida. He is the author of Origen and the History of Justification and the translator of other commentaries by Origen and Jerome. Christopher A. Hall is chancellor at Eastern University. He is associate editor of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture and author of Reading Scripture with the Church Fathers.

General Introduction

Abbreviations

Translator's Introduction

Origen's Homilies on Numbers

Rufinus's Preface

Homily 1: Numbers 1:1-54

Homily 2: Numbers 2:1-34

Homily 3: Numbers 3:5-39

Homily 4: Numbers 3:39--4:49

Homily 5: Numbers 4:1-49

Homily 6: Numbers 11:16-25; 12:1-15

Homily 7: Numbers 12:1-15; 13:18-34; 14:1-8

Homily 8: Numbers 13:18-34; 14:1-38

Homily 9: Numbers 17:1-28 (LXX) = 16:36--17:13 (RSV)

Homily 10: Numbers 18:1-7

Homily 11: Numbers 18:8-32

Homily 12: Numbers 21:16-23

Homily 13: Numbers 21:24-35; 22:1-14

Homily 14: Numbers 22:15-28

Homily 15: Numbers 22:31-41; 23:1-10

Homily 16: Numbers 23:11-24

Homily 17: Numbers 23:25-30; 24:1-9

Homily 18: Numbers 24:10-19

Homily 19: Numbers 24:20-24

Homily 20: Numbers 25:1-10

Homily 21: Numbers 26

Homily 22: Numbers 27:1-23

Homily 23: Numbers 28:1--29:39

Homily 24: Numbers 28--30

Homily 25: Numbers 31:1-54

Homily 26: Numbers 31--32

Homily 27: Numbers 33:1-49

Homily 28: Numbers 34--35

Subject Index

Scripture Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.11.2009
Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	188 x 260 mm
Gewicht	655 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8308-2905-9 / 0830829059
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-2905-7 / 9780830829057
Zustand	Neuware