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Ausgabe:

April/2018

Spalte:

327–328

Kategorie:

Bibelwissenschaft

Autor/Hrsg.:

Lau, Dieter

Titel/Untertitel:

Origenes’ tropologische Hermeneutik und die Wahrheit des biblischen Wortes. Ein Beitrag zu den Grundlagen der altchristlichen Bibelexegese.

Verlag:

Frankfurt a. M. u. a.: Peter Lang 2016. 266 S. = Lateres. Texte und Studien zu Antike, Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit, 10. Geb. EUR 59,95. ISBN 978-3-631-67211-2.

Rezensent:

Anders-Christian Jacobsen

Dieter Lau has written an important book about Origen of Alexandria’s hermeneutic. L. claims (26) that even though much has been written about this, Origen’s use of tropology has not been sufficiently investigated. My first reaction to this claim was that this could not be true. However, L.’s book has convinced me otherwise. In his sometimes very technical approach to Origen’s hermeneutic, he manages to describe in detail some important aspects of this that gives a deeper understanding of this topic than is reached in many other less detailed and less technical descriptions of Origen’s hermeneutic.
As the title of the book says, it focuses on tropology, which accord­ing to L. is the key rhetorical term in Origen’s figurative exegesis. The intention of the book ...


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