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Author Smith, Yancy, author.

Title The Mystery of Anointing: Hippolytus' Commentary on the Song of Songs in Social and Critical Contexts : Texts, Translations, and Comprehensive Study / Yancy Smith.

Publication Info. Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics
Gorgias studies in early Christianity and patristics.
Contents Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. HIPPOLYTUS THE EXEGETE -- 2. WOMEN IN HIPPOLYTUS' COMMENTARY ON THE SONG OF SONGS -- 3. ON THE SONG OF SONGS IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF "HERESIES" -- 4. EMBODIED LOGOS, DOMESTIC ART AND ACCULTURATION -- 5. RHETORICAL SITUATION PART ONE: ETHOS IN THE COMMENTARY -- 6. THE RHETORICAL SITUATION PART TWO: STRUCTURE AND SEASON IN THE MYSTAGOGY OF HIPPOLYTUS -- 7. RHETORICAL SITUATION PART THREE: THE COMMENTARY IN ITS CELEBRATORY CONTEXT -- 8. HERMENEUTICAL APPROACH -- 9. MYSTERY AND DIVINE ECONOMY -- 10. CONCLUSIONS -- 11. ANNOTATED TRANSLATION -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 563-602) and index.
Summary 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.
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Language In English.
Subject Bible. Song of Solomon -- Commentaries -- History and criticism.
Bible. Song of Solomon.
Bible. Song of Solomon.
RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
ISBN 1463234856
9781463202187
1463202180
9781463234850 (electronic book)
Standard No. 10.31826/9781463234850