“Christum qui est Hædus Iudaeis, Agnus Nobis”: A Medieval Kabbalistic Response to the Patristic Exegesis on Exodus 23:19

2019 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-287
Author(s):  
Jonatan M. Benarroch
Keyword(s):  
Patristic Exegesis

Jewish Ham

2018 ◽  
pp. 103-134
Author(s):  
Lindsay Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Way ◽  
Patristic Exegesis

Many scholars have considered how the curse of Ham in Genesis serves as a justification for the enslavement of Africans. However, in seeking for the origin of Ham’s purported blackness, they overlook his association with Jewish hereditary inferiority. Originating in patristic exegesis, this idea circulates widely in medieval visual arts and popular discourses. While medieval Christian commentaries on Genesis that link Ham to Africa do not mention Noah’s curse, the idea of Jewish cursed servitude appears adjacent to these considerations, thus paving the way for a transfer of hereditary inferiority from one group to the other. The association of Jews with Ham continues into the Reformation, but subsides as the imperative to subordinate Jews gives way to intra-Christian enmity. The figure of Ham as representing a curse of Jewish perpetual slavery is eclipsed by a more profitable, opportunistic application to Africans that justifies their enslavement.

A Classification of a Liturgy’s Use of Scripture: A Proposal

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-245
Author(s):  
Matthew S. C. Olver
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Additional Source ◽  
Significant Evidence ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Answering Questions ◽  
Patristic Exegesis

The relationship between scripture and Christian liturgy is one that was discussed and assumed in much of the liturgical and ecumenical literature in the twentieth century. The majority of that work focused on the use of the Bible within liturgical rites in general and not within the text of specific liturgical rites. This article is a constructive proposal of a comprehensive taxonomy to describe all the possible ways that a liturgical text can appropriate scripture as a source. Such attention to the ways biblical texts and exegesis are reflected in euchological texts not only has the potential to provide clarity on how the early Christians related to the Bible in general and within their liturgical rites. It may also provide an additional source for answering questions about the dating and provenance of particular rites by identifying the overlap with strains of patristic exegesis, for which we possess significant evidence.

Reception in the Renaissance and Reformation

2019 ◽  
pp. 685-703
Author(s):  
Esther Chung-Kim
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Renaissance Humanism ◽  
The Church ◽  
Intellectual Movement ◽  
Patristic Exegesis

The retrieval of patristic exegesis made great strides during the revival of Renaissance humanism and the spread of European Reformations. While devotion to the recovery of the early Church writings was primarily an intellectual movement, it was shaped and motivated by distinct social, political, religious, and philosophical developments of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe. Humanists appreciated ancient Christian writings because they sought to combine piety with eloquence, which would reinvigorate religion for educated laity. When humanists, such as LeFèvre and Erasmus, offered their translations and interpretation of Scripture and the church fathers, others responded with their own interpretations from Lutheran, Calvinist, Swiss Reformed, Anabaptist, English, or Catholic perspectives. Although the development of confessionalization shaped the integration of Renaissance patristic scholarship, the patristic reception of Protestants and Catholics portrayed both respect and criticism of ancient exegetes because they struggled to define their theological positions among a plurality of interpretations.

Old English Words and Patristic Exegesis-"hwyrftum scriƿađ": A Caveat

1977 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley B. Greenfield
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Patristic Exegesis
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