Commentaries on Genesis 1-3
Subtitle: Bede the Venerable and Severian of Gabala
By: edited by Michael Glerup ; translated by Robert C. Hill and Carmen S. Hardin
Contributors: Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735; Severian, of Gabala, fl. 398-408
Series: Ancient Christian texts
Publisher: IVP Academic
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Downers Grove, Il. : IVP Academic, c2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780830829071
Description: The church fathers displayed considerable interest in the early chapters of Genesis, and often wrote detailed commentaries or preached series of homilies on the Hexameron--the Six Days of Creation--among them Eustathius of Antioch, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Ambrose, John Chrysostom and Augustine. This volume of Ancient Christian Texts offers a first-time English translation of Severian of Gabala's In cosmogoniam and a fresh translation of a portion of Bede the Venerable's Libri quatuor in principium Genesis. Severian, bishop of Gabala in Syria, who early on was a friend of John Chrysostom, later turned against him and opposed him at the Synod of Oak in 403. Though displaying his own strengths, weaknesses and idiosyncrasies, Severian still represents the so-called Antiochene school with its preference for literal over allegorical interpretation of texts. The text derives from the six homilies found in Migne's Patrologia graeca, volume 56, together with a seventh homily found only in the 1613 Eton edition of John Chrysostom's works, edited by Henry Savile, and falsely attributed to Chrysostom. --From publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.