Origen and Scripture The Contours of the Exegetical Life

includes index and biblioraphy

Part 1: The Philologist 2. Mandate: The Interpreter`s Education The audience The directive The directive and Origen`s scholarly career 3. Specialization: The Elements of Philology Procedures Text criticism Historical analysis Literary analysis Referents: Literal and allegorical Part 2: The Philologist and Christianity 4. Scholarship: Divine Provenance Celsus` polemic All wisdom comes from God The origins of philology 5. Conversion: Sanctified Study The life of scriptural interpretation The ordered (and disordered) mind Advancing from faith to reason 6. Boundaries (Part I): Interpretation among the Heterodox A preliminary note on terms Origen among the Gnostic heterodox Gnostic exegesis and doctrine Exegetical lessons 119 Discernment 119 Fidelity to the church`s rule 127 7. Boundaries (Part II): Interpretation in the New Israel Origen among the Jews 135 A puzzling charge 138 A species of literalism 140 Literalism and Ebionite exegesis 148 Allegorical insight: The exegetical tutelage of Jesus and Paul 156 8. Conduct: Moral Inquiry 161 Moral conditioning 162 Exegetical virtues 168 Faith 178 Divine aid 181 Prayer 186 9. Message: Saving Knowledge 193 Authorial intent 194 One message 201 Contours of the message 205 Moral and mystical 206 The rule of faith 209 The soul`s journey to God 212 Jesus Christ 216 Scripture`s effects 221 10. Horizons: The Beginning and End of the Drama of Salvation 227 In the beginning 228 At the end 234