Chrysostom as Exegete: Scholarly Traditions and Rhetorical Aims in the Homilies on Genesis

by Samuel Pomeroy

To what extent and to what purposes did John Chrysostom engage previous models of Biblical exegesis? In this systematic study of his Homilies on Genesis, new light is shed on the precision of his adaption of works by Basil, Origen, Eusebius of Emesa, and Eusebius of Caesarea, findings set against a wider 'web' of parallels with various other exegetes (e.g. Ephrem, Diodore, Didymus). The cumulative picture is a network of shared knowledge across...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004469222
• ISBN13: 9789004469228
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 400 Pages