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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Patristic Exegesis"”.
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Allegory, mimesis and the text: theological moulding of Lukan parables in Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis
… Church Fathers in the form of their allegorical exegesis of the text of the New Testament is employed to explain variant readings of the Bezan text. The notion that the harmonising tendency in the accounts of the Gospels is simply due to embarrassment is challenged. The alternative theory argued …
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The meaning of structure in chaucerian narrative
… represented in rhetorical studies of Chaucer, patristic exegesis, and the quantitative approach that applies the structural principles of Gothic architecture to narrative. Finding these approaches inadequate because of their inability to engage the richness of the literal text, in Chapter Two I …
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Christ, the Spirit and Human Transformation in Gregory of Nyssa's In Canticum Canticorum
This dissertation undertakes an analysis of Gregory of Nyssa's final work, In Canticum Canticorum. Part I investigates Gregory's earlier works. In Part II, Gregory's fifteen homilies on the Song of Songs are analysed in light of key structures of thought explored in Part I. Special emphasis is …