This volume presents new translations of significant ancient documents relating to the emergence of hermeneutical (scripture interpretation) questions in the patristic period. Translations of primary source materials incude: - Sifra: The Exegetical Rules (Middot) of Rabbi Ishmael and Rabbi Hillel
- Ptolemy: Letter to Flora
- Irenaeus: Against Heresies
- Origen: On First Principles: Book Four
- Papyrus Michigan Inv. 3718: Christian Allegorizations
- Diodore of Tarsus: Commentary on the Psalms, Prologue
- Diodore of Tarsus: Preface to the Commentary on Psalm 118
- Theodore of Mopsuestia: Commentary on Galatians 4:22-31
- Tyconius (ca. 380 North Africa): The Book of Rules, I-III
Karlfried Froehlich is Benjamin B. Warfield Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Emeritus, at Princeton Theological Seminary. |
