Smith The Mystery of Anointing: Hippolytus' Commentary on the Song of Songs in Social and Critical Contexts

Texts, Translations, and Comprehensive Study
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4632-3485-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 652 Seiten

Reihe: Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics

The first English translation and study of St. Hippolytus' fascinating, early third-century commentary 'On the Song of Songs'. Important for the history of biblical interpretation, rival identities of early Christians, liturgy, and mystagogy in the pre-Constantinian church.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Yancy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents (page 5)
- List of Illustrations (page 9)
- Foreword (page 11)
- Preface (page 13)
- Acknowledgments (page 29)
- Abbreviations (page 33)
- Introduction (page 39)
- The Mystagogical Sitz im Leben of the Commentary (page 40)
- Christ, His Two Wives, and the Heretics (page 49)
- The Place of Provenance Arguments in this Study (page 53)
- The Paschal Homiletic Connection of the Commentary (page 55)
- The Commentary as Mystagogical Homily (page 56)
- A Fresh Approach to the Commentary (page 59)
- Preview of Chapters (page 77)
- Texts and Translations of the Commentary On the Song of Songs (page 80)
- 1. Hippolytus the Exegete (page 87)
- The Commentary and Asiatic Rhetoric (page 90)
- The Commentaries and the so-called 'Statue of Hippolytus' (page 92)
- On the Song of Songs and the Hippolytus Question (page 97)
- The Issue of Authorship in the Hippolytan Corpus (page 107)
- The Date, Setting, and Influence of the Commentary (page 119)
- On the Song of Songs Between East and West (page 125)
- Summary: The Life and Times of Hippolytus (page 133)
- 2. Women in Hippolytus' Commentary On the Song of Songs (page 135)
- The Mystagogical Context of the Commentary and Female Redemption (page 147)
- On the Song of Songs and Female Patronage (page 152)
- Women and the Mystagogue in the Commentary (page 161)
- 'Apostles to the Apostles': Eve and the Myrrhophores Ordained (page 163)
- Hippolytus' Attitude toward Women in On the Song of Songs (page 170)
- 3. On the Song of Songs in the Social Context of 'Heresies' (page 171)
- The Christian Love of Commentaries (page 174)
- Valentinian Influence on Christian Commentary Writing (page 183)
- The Issue of Boundaries: A Relationship between On the Song of Songs and the Refutation? (page 201)
- Summary (page 207)
- 4. Embodied Logos, Domestic Art and Acculturation (page 210)
- Paschal Baptism, Anointing and Hand Laying (page 212)
- On the Song of Songs and the Severan Rhetoric of Empire (page 238)
- Summary (page 247)
- 5. Rhetorical Situation Part One: Ethos in the Commentary (page 249)
- Speaker and Audience in On the Song of Songs (page 251)
- The Household Context of Baptism and Anointing (page 257)
- The Audience in the Commentary (page 265)
- Rhetorical Features of the Early Christian Instruction of New Converts (page 272)
- On the Song of Songs as a Banquet Speech (page 276)
- Summary (page 285)
- 6. Rhetorical Situation Part Two: Structure and Season in the Mystagogy of Hippolytus (page 287)
- Seasonal Constraints on the Interpretation of the Song (page 287)
- The Speaker's Choice of Genre (page 294)
- Summary of Contents and Themes of On the Song of Songs (page 296)
- Rhetorical Units and Arrangement (page 300)
- Outline of the Commentary (page 304)
- On the Song of Songs A Paschal Homily of Mystagogical Instruction (page 309)
- The Mystery of the Passover (page 316)
- On the Song of Songs among the Mystagogies (page 331)
- Mystagogy and the Praise of Emperors (page 334)
- Summary (page 338)
- 7. Rhetorical Situation Part Three: The Commentary in its Celebratory Context (page 339)
- The Greco-Roman Banquet Tradition (page 343)
- The Roman Context (page 354)
- The Refrigerium Meal (page 357)
- The Agape Meal (page 360)
- Summary (page 364)
- 8. Hermeneutical Approach (page 367)
- Introduction (page 367)
- Tending Boundaries: Invective, Community Cohesion, and the Inner Chamber (page 368)
- Revealing the Inner Chamber (page 371)
- Kiss and Anointing that Fills the World with Meaning (page 374)
- Precedents in Jewish Interpretation of the Song (page 377)
- Greco-Roman Mythical Connections (page 381)
- The Consolation of the Song in Hippolytus the Exegete's Use of Various Mythical Themes (page 382)
- Valentinian Precedents of On the Song of Songs (page 413)
- 9. Mystery and Divine Economy (page 426)
- Typology and the Mystery of the Divine Economy (page 430)
- The Divine Economy in On the Song of Songs (page 430)
- Incarnation, Crucifixion, and the Resurrection of the Incarnate Word (page 433)
- The World-wide Proselytizing Mission: the Grace of the Economy (page 441)
- Divinization: the Goal of the Divine Economy (page 443)
- Chapter Summary (page 449)
- 10. Conclusions (page 450)
- 11. Annotated Translation (page 456)
- Works Cited (page 601)
- Index (page 641)