Thursday, July 21, 2005

The Bryn Mawr Classical Review (anyone know why they don't have an RSS Feed yet? That would be so cool!) recently published a review of The Bible in Athanasius of Alexandria. Here are the bibliographic details:

James D. Ernest, The Bible in Athanasius of Alexandria. The Bible in Ancient Christianity 2. Leiden: Brill, 2004.  Pp. xiv, 482. ISBN 0-391-04176-2. €133.00.

More spendy books. The review by Hugh Houghton is well worth reading.

Unfortunately, this review also made me aware of Brill's series The Bible in Ancient Christianity series. This one is too spendy for me to pursue, even though the following title is tempting:

Charles Kannengiesser, Handbook of Patristic Exegesis. The Bible in Ancient Christianity 1. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 2 vols (approx. 1500 pp total).  ISBN 90 04 09815 1. €295.- / US$ 339.-

But WOW does it sound like a fun book:

Through this Handbook of Patristic Exegesis, the reader will obtain a balanced and cohesive picture of the Early Church. It gives an overall view of the reception, transmission, and interpretation of the Bible in the life and thought of the Church during the first five centuries of Christianity, the so-called patristic era. The handbook offers the context and presuppositions necessary for understanding the development of the interpretative traditions of the Early Church, in its catechesis, its liturgy and as a foundation of its systems of theology.

Post Author: Rico
Thursday, July 21, 2005 7:33:35 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00) 

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