Interpreting the Bible Like Homer
Origen's Prosopological Exegesis in the New Homilies on the Psalms
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4314384 |
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| Authors | Andrea Villani (0000-0003-0558-1417, University of Bologna, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1019 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-06 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel16081019 |
| OpenAlex | W4413024170 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
Origen's prosopological exegesis, derived from a technique developed for Homeric interpretation by the Alexandrian grammarians and applied by Christian interpreters to some texts of the Scriptures, has been already studied in its principal aspects by a few scholars in the 1980s, especially M.-J. Rondeau and B. Neuschäfer. However, the discovery of a corpus of 29 Greek homilies which have been attributed to Origen makes necessary a reexamination of the previous studies, in order to verify (and possibly correct) their results. This study aims to present such a comparison, analyzing some examples of prosopological exegesis in the new Homilies on the Psalms in the light of other examples in Origen's remaining literary oeuvre; furthermore, it aims to show that Origen adopted (and adapted) an exegetical technique typical of the Alexandrian Homeric philology
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| Highly cited | No |
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