HESIOD'S HOLISTIC AUTHORITY IN NEOPLATONIST EXEGESIS

Plato’s two Hesiods

Friedrich Solmsen’s path-breaking study of Hesiod’s influence on Plato focused on ‘motifs’ common to the two authors. Concerned to bring out the ‘threads of continuity’ in their ethical thought, Solmsen explicitly set aside the evidence of quotation, explaining that ‘[b]y and large, Plato is moving on a level of thought on which direct contact with the Hesiodic legacy could serve little purpose...

Andrea Rassell exegesis

Holistic View in Medicine

Modern medicine was born in modernism period around two centuries ago with materialistic view in general and pure biologic approach to health and disease. This new kind of approach was based on the wide spread philosophic view of that era especially the hypotheses of Claude Bernard. As our understanding of human biology has tremendously progressed, and the emergence of postmodernism era has o...

Recovering Origen’s Pauline Exegesis: Exegesis and Eschatology in the Commentary on Ephesians

Origen’s Commentary on Ephesians is preserved only in fragments excerpted in a Byzantine catena, which are inadequate for reconstructing Origen’s interpretation of this letter. This article investigates the possibility that a commentary on the same text by Jerome preserves the interplay in Origen’s commentary between the investigation of specific exegetical problems and the interpretation of th...

Exegesis of Psalm 62

The most basic and fundamental element of the psalms is their: expression of continual total and exclusive trust in God. This element is most fully expressed in Psalm 62. This psalm, as well as Psalms 4, 16, 27 and 131, is a psalm of trust. Each expresses the same firm hope in God's ability to help his faithful ones become "more than conquerors." Several scholars argue that the psalms of trust ...