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Title Poetry and exegesis in premodern Latin Christianity : the encounter between classical and Christian strategies of interpretation / edited by Willemien Otten & Karla Pollmann.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 360 pages).
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Series Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 87
Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 87.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Augustine and poetic exegesis / H.J. Westra -- Quid facit cum Horatio Hieronymus? : Christian Latin poetry and scriptural poetics / M. Vessey -- Time and the integrity of poetry : Ambrose and Augustine / M.B. Prager -- The Evangeliorum libri of Juvencus : exegesis by stealth? / R.P.H. Green -- Cantatur ad delectationem : Ambrose's lyric poetry / J.den Boeft -- Technological innovation and poetical exegesis : the glass lamp in Prudentius' Cathemerinon 5 / J. Clarke -- Te Carmen ad uxorem and the genre of the epithalamium / R. Chiappiniello -- Principles of structure and unity in Latin Biblical epic / M. Hoffmann -- Interpreting cultural change : semiotics and exegesis in Dracontius' De laudibus Dei / A. Arweiler -- Exegesis by distorting pagan myths in Corippus' epic poetry / Ch. O. Tommasi Moreschini -- Reflections on the meaning of the Ecloga Theoduli : where is the authorial voice? / M. Herren -- Epic poetry as exegesis : "The song of the good war" (Eupolemius) / K. Smolak -- The poetics of Biblical tragedy in Abelard's Planctus / W. Otten -- Biblical poetry in Latin liturgical texts / A.A.R. Bastiaensen -- The saint as preacher : remarks on a rare motif in late antique and medieval poetry / H. Müller -- Poetry and suffering : metrical paraphrases of Eucherius of Lyons' Passio Acaunensium martyrum / K. Pollmann -- Biblical versifications from late antiquity to the middle of the thirteenth century : history or allegory? / G. Dinkova-Bruun.
Summary Presents a variety of specifically Christian approaches to poetry and analyses modes of interpreting the Bible that are new in poetry compared with prose exegesis. This collection examines specimens of Christian poetry from "Juvencus" (the first biblical epicist shortly after 300) up to the thirteenth century.
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Subject Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
Bible -- Critique, interprétation, etc. -- Histoire -- ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Bible.
Christian poetry, Latin -- History and criticism.
Christian poetry, Latin.
Christian literature, Early -- Latin authors -- History and criticism.
Christian literature, Early -- Latin authors.
Christian poetry, Early -- History and criticism.
Christian poetry, Early.
Christianity and literature -- Rome.
Christianity and culture -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
Chronological Term Geschichte 300-1300
30-600
Indexed Term Latin poetry
Christianity
Exegesis
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Added Author Otten, Willemien.
Pollmann, Karla.
Other Form: Print version: Poetry and exegesis in premodern Latin Christianity. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007 (DLC) 2007031051 (OCoLC)153579262
ISBN 9789047421320 (electronic book)
9047421329 (electronic book)
9789004160699 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9004160698 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004160699.i-364