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of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Sensus triplex. Origen’s Doctrine of Three Senses of Scriptural Meaning

  • Classification – name: Literary studies
  • Author: Olga E. Nesterova
  • Format: Hardback
  • Dimensions: 60 х 90 1/16
  • Pages: 592 p.
  • Publisher: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IWL RAS Publ.)
  • Rights – description: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 (СС BY-ND)
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  • Language of the publication: Russian
  • Type of document: Monograph
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0726-7
  • EDN:

    https://elibrary.ru/QNKTYM
  • ISBN: 978-5-9208-0726-7
  • Year of publication: 2023
  • Place of publication: Moscow

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  • Nesterova, Olga E. Sensus triplex. Origen’s Doctrine of Three Senses of Scriptural Meaning. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2023. 592 p. https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0726-7

Information about the author:

Olga E. Nesterova

Olga E. Nesterova, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8049-8141

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Abstract:

In the 3rd century Origen of Alexandria (c. 185 – c. 254), a prominent early Christian scholar, theologian and exegete, developed a particular method of interpreting biblical texts not only according to their literal (“somatic”) meaning, but also according to their non-literal meaning of two higher levels, labelled “psychic” and “pneumatic” respectively. This book examines the origins and the actual content of this doctrine, its theological and hermeneutical foundations, its internal coherence and its relation to the earlier methods and practices of figural biblical exegesis — Jewish, Judeo-Hellenistic, Neotestamental and Gnostic.

Keywords: Origen, Bible, Christian exegesis, methods of Scripture interpretation, senses of scriptural meaning.

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