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Veröffentlichung:	Juli 1993
Genre:	Religion
ISBN:	9780198147862
EAN-Code:	9780198147862
Verlag:	Oxford University Press, USA
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Serie:	Oxford Early Christian Studies
Dimensionen:	H 216 mm / B 140 mm / D 18 mm
Gewicht:	449 gr
Seiten:	236
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Inhalt:

Baptism for the early Christians was a subject of crucial importance, and its symbolism fired the imagination of writers throughout the Christian world. Arator, the Roman sub-deacon who wrote a verse-commentary on the Acts of the Apostles in AD 544, was no exception. The Historia Apostolica is a work of historical importance. Written at a time of crisis, politically and theologically, it is of interest as propaganda for a papacy under threat from Constantinople. But Arator's concentration on baptismal themes offers vital evidence of the transmission of exegetical ideas in late antiquity. This book is the first major work on Arator in English and the first ever to study the Historia Apostolica as biblical commentary. Passages of particular baptismal importance are presented both in the original Latin and in a new translation, and considered in the context of the writings of earlier Christian commentators. In short, this is a wide-ranging study of the popularity and potency of baptismal symbolism in the first six centuries AD.