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In teaching Catechism at any level,1 one is often confronted with the issue of how to interpret some particularly controversial sections of biblical stories. The main issue raised in one biblical book seemingly contradicts the main statement of another following book. Especially within the books of the Old Testament, we are confronted with this phenomenon. Although the problem strikes most of us individually, this difficulty is a traditional problem in biblical research.
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Cf. Tertullian, An Answer to the Jews, ed. A. Roberts and J. Donaldson, Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translation of the Writings of the Fathers, down to AD 325, vol. 18 (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1867–72), 4.
From early times on, the modern scholarship tended to conjoin Joshua to the Pentateuch, as if it constituted a unity, even though the Jews never saw the Law this way. Cf. P. Vigouroux (ed.), Dictionnaire de la Bible, vol. 3 (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1912), 1691.
Clemens Alexandrinus, Les strommates, trans. P. Voulet (Paris: Cerf, 2006–9), 2.20.
John Chrysostom, On Repentance and Almsgiving, trans. Gus George Christo, in The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation, vol. 96 (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1998).
Eusebius of Caesarea, The Ecclesiastical History, trans. K. Lake and J. E. L. Oulton (London: Harvard University Press, 1964–65), 1.2.
Augustine of Hyppo, “Against Lying,” in Treatises on Various Subjects: The Christian Life, Lying, Against Lying, Continence, Etc, in Fathers of the Church, ed. Roy J. Deferrari (New York: Catholic University of America Press, 1952).
Ambrose of Milan, Duties of the Clergy (Project Guttenberg, 2007), http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22789.
John Cassian, Conferences, trans. C. Luibheid (New York: Paulist Press, 1985), 17.
J. R. Franke, “Introduction to Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1–2 Samuel,” in Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: Old Testament, vol. 4, ed. Franke (Downers Grove, IL: Inter Varsity Press, 2005), xxvii.
Beda Venerabilis, Commentarii in Pentateuchum, in Patrologia Latina, vol. 91 (Paris: Imprimerie Catholique, 1862).
Tanner’s edition of the Acts of the Fifth Ecumenical Council does not contain a detailed list of the anaphemized doctrines attributed to Origen. Yet, it does contain his name among the names of other well-known heretics (anaphema 11). Cf. N. P. Tanner, Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, vol. 1 (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1990), 119.
R. P. C. Hanson, Allegory and Event: A Study of the Sources and Significance of Origen’s Interpretation of Scripture (London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002), 235.
J. R. Franke (ed.), Ancient Christian Commentaries on Scripture, vol. 4, general editor T. Oden (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2005).
Inter alia, cf. M. Canévet, Gregoire de Nysse et l’hermeneutique biblique (Paris: Etudes Augustiniennes, 1983);
A. Meredith, Gregory of Nyssa (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1995).
M. Canévet, “Saint Gregoire de Nysse,” in Dictionriaire de Spiritualie, vol. 6 (Paris: Editions Beauchesne, 1967), 32.
G. Florovsky, Восточные отцы 4-го века (Eastern Fathers of the Fourth Century) (Moscow: Palomnik, 1992), 126;
J. Meyendorff, Введение в святоотеческое богословие (Introduction to the Patristic Theology) (Moscow: Luchi Sofii, 1991), 194.
Hilarion Alfeyev, The Mystery of Faith (London: Darton, Longman and Tood, 2002), 216–17.
Jewish Haggadah is a tradition of seder ritual of the Passover feast. It consists of numerous constitutive parts, some of which have a narrative character. Partly oral in its origin, it combines a recitation of historical events, the way it is presented in the Book of Exodus, with an allegorical interpretation of these events. Sections of Haggadah narrative included commentaries also on other Old Testament books, including the Book of Joshua. Cf. Ernst Daniel Goldschmidt, “Haggadah, Passover,” in Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd edition, vol. 8, ed. Fred Skolnik (Detroit: Macmillan References USA, 2007), 207–9.
Curiously, Scot Douglas considers Gregory’s exegetical methodology as a very complex phenomenon, calling it “theology of the gap.” Cf. Scot Douglas, Theology of the Gap: Cappadocian Language Theory and Trinitarian Controversy (New York: Peter Lang International Academic, 2005), 14.
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Yudin, V. (2016). Conquering the Promised Land. In: Dumitraşcu, N. (eds) The Ecumenical Legacy of the Cappadocians. Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-50269-8_17
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