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Ancient Christian Commentary: 1-2 Corinthians

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About this Series

The Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture does what very few of today's students of the Bible could do for themselves. With the aid of computer technology, the vast array of writings from the church fathers--including much that is available only in the ancient languages--have been combed for their comment on Scripture. From these results, scholars with a deep knowledge of the fathers and a heart for the church have hand selected material for each volume, shaping, annotating and introducing it to today's readers. Each portion of commentary has been chosen for its salient insight, its rhetorical power and its faithful representation of the consensual exegesis of the early church.

About this Volume

The Ancient Christian Commentary: 1-2 Corinthians covers the books of 1-2 Corinthians and can also be purchased as part of a money-saving bundle.

Paul's letters to the Corinthian church have left a mark on Christian Scripture in a way that could never have been predicted. Here the pastoral issues of a first-century Christian community in what Chrysostom identified as "still the first city in Greece" stand out in bold relief. How was a community shaped by the cross to find its expression in a city that Chrysostom knew to be "full of orators and philosophers" and that "prided itself...above all on its great wealth"? How was church unity to be maintained in a setting where prominent believers, bending truth and morality to their own advantage, divided the body of Christ? Here lay the challenge for the apostle Paul. And as the apostle writes, the fathers lean over his shoulder, marveling and commenting on his pastoral wisdom.

Best known among these patristic commentators is Chrysostom, whose seventy-seven homilies on the two Corinthian epistles are a treasury of exposition and application. The fragmentary works of Didymus the Blind and Severian of Gabala give us samples of Greek exegesis from the Alexandrian and Antiochene schools. The partial work of Theodore of Mopsuestia, a commentator of great skill and insight, was long valued in the church. And the comments of Theodoret of Cyrus are notable for their sensitivity to the intertextuality of Scripture. Then there are Origen and Pelagius, whose names resonate with notable error, to the needless obscuring of their brilliant insights into Scripture. But pride of place goes to the unknown fourth-century commentator long mistaken for Ambrose and now dubbed "Ambrosiaster." His excellent commentary on 1 and 2 Corinthians has been unavailable in English translation, and for that reason it is excerpted more generously in this volume.

This Ancient Christian Commentary on 1-2 Corinthians opens a whole new way of reading these New Testament texts. The pastoral and theological interpretation of the fathers offers spiritual and intellectual sustenance to those who would read Paul again with open minds and hearts. Here we find the Pauline wisdom of the cross generating an effective heritage of Christian interpretation.

Features

• Makes accessible early Christian commentary on 1-2 Corinthians
• Covers the period from Clement of Rome (second century) to John of Damascus (mid-eighth century)
• Illuminates Scripture in the light of classic and consensual Christian faith
• Informs postcritical Christian reading and exposition of Scripture
• Renders ancient Greek, Latin, Coptic and Syriac writings in lucid English translation
• Draws on the resources and expertise of an international team of scholars from Protestant, Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions
• Provides biographical sketches and a timeline of ancient Christian sources
• Contains indexes, bibliographies and keys to original language sources
• Excellent resource for preaching and teaching

About the Editor(s)

Gerald L. Bray (Ph.D., La Sorbonne) is a professor at Beeson Divinity School of Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama and Director of Research at Latimer Trust. He has written and edited a number of books on different theological subjects. A priest of the Church of England, Bray has also edited the post-Reformation Anglican canons.

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