Gregory the Great On the Song of Songs

by Delcogliano, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780879072445
• ISBN10: 087907244X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-20
• Publisher: Cistercian Pubns

Summary

Gregory the Great (+604) was a master of the art of exegesis. His interpretations are theologically profound, methodologically fascinating, and historically influential. This volume includes all that Gregory had to say on the Song of Songs: his Exposition on the Song of Songs, the florilegia compiled by Paterius (Gregory's secretary) and the Venerable Bede, and William of Saint Thierry's Excerpts from the Books of Blessed Gregory on the Song of Songs. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Mark DelCogliano earned a PhD in patristic theology from Emory University in 2009 and currently teaches in the Department of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has published several studies of the fourth-century trinitarian controversy, including Basil of Caesarea's Anti-Eunomian Theory of Names, and has collaborated on translations of patristic and medieval texts, such as Works on the Spirit: Athanasius and Didymus, St. Basil of Caesarea. Against Eunomius, and For Your Own People: lred of Rievaulx's Pastoral Prayer.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xv
A Notes on References to Primary Sources	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
The Life of Gregory of the Great and His Writings	p. 1
Rome in Late Antiquity	p. 1
Gregory's Early Years	p. 5
Deacon and Papal Apocrisiarius	p. 10
Gregory's Papacy	p. 15
Gregory's Writings	p. 20
Gregory's Death and Legacy	p. 24
Gregory's Writings on the Song of Songs	p. 29
Gregory's Exposition on the Song of Songs	p. 29
The Question of Authenticity	p. 29
The Date and Circumstances of Composition	p. 33
The Scope of the Exposition	p. 43
The Excerpters of Gregory	p. 48
Paterius's Book of Testimonies	p. 50
Bede's Commentary on the Song of Songs	p. 52
William of Saint Thierry's Excerpts from the Books of Blessed Gregory on the Song of Songs	p. 54
Gregory's Exegesis of the Song of Songs	p. 57
Gregory in the History of Interpretation	p. 57
Gregory's Method of Scriptural Exegesis	p. 65
Gregory's Exegetical Motivation	p. 66
Grammatical Reading Techniques	p. 67
Gregory's Figural Approach to the Song of Songs	p. 73
Gregory's Exegetical Practice	p. 79
Gregory's Sources	p. 84
Origen	p. 85
Augustine	p. 87
Apponius	p. 89
Ambrose of Milan	p. 92
John Cassian	p. 98
Two Notes to the Reader	p. 99
Notes on References to the Song of Songs	p. 99
Notes on the Translations	p. 101
Translations	p. 103
Gregory the Great's Exposition on the Song of Songs	p. 105
Introduction	p. 107
Translation	p. 109
Excerpts from the Works of Gregory the Great on the Song of Songs Compiled by Paterius and Bede	p. 145
Introduction	p. 147
Bede's Preface to Commentary on the Song of Songs VI	p. 149
Translation of the Compilations of Paterius and Bede	p. 150
William of Saint Thierry's Excerpts from the Books of Blessed Gregory on the Song of Songs	p. 181
Introduction	p. 183
Translation	p. 186
Supplemental Texts	p. 241
Introduction	p. 243
Translation	p. 244
Appendices	p. 249
Gregory's Citations of the Song of Songs	p. 251
Table of Correspondences among Paterius, Bede, and William	p. 257
Textual Notes on Gregory the Great's Exposition on the Song of Songs	p. 275
Textual Notes on the Compilations of Paterius and Bede	p. 279
Textual Notes on William of Saint Thierry's Excerpts from the Books of Blessed Gregory on the Song of Songs	p. 287
Bibliography	p. 295
Scriptural Index	p. 309
General Index	p. 315
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