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Subject(s)

• Bible Gospels—Commentaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Fortunatianus Bishop of Aquileia active 4th century—Commentarii in Evangelia [Browse]

Related name

• Houghton, H. A. G. [Browse]

Series

• Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum [More in this series]
• Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum ; [Extra Seriem] [More in this series]

Summary note

In 2012, Lukas Dorfbauer identified a manuscript in Cologne Cathedral Library as a copy of the Commentary on the Gospels by Fortunatianus, bishop of Aquileia in the middle of the fourth century. This discovery enabled him to identify further witnesses to the commentary and works dependent on it. Dorfbauer's critical edition, to be published in the CSEL series in 2017, makes this work available to scholarship for the first time in over a millennium. The discovery of a new work from late antiquity is always a landmark in the history of research. This extensive commentary shines new light on fourth-century biblical interpretation and the exegetical practices and literary work of an African bishop ministering in north Italy in this period. What is more, it appears to be dependent on works by Origen and Victorinus of Poetovio which are no longer preserved. In order to make this important work available to a wider audience, Dr Houghton has prepared an English translation and introduction in conjunction with the COMPAUL project on the earliest commentaries on the New Testament as sources for the biblical text.

Funding information

FP7 Ideas: European Research Council 283302 FP7

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Jun 2019)

Rights and reproductions note

This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified individually in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license:

Language note

English.

Contents

• Frontmatter
• Translator's Preface
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Bibliography
• Translation: Fortunatianus of Aquileia, Commentary on the Gospels
• Indices

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Other format(s)

Issued also in print.

OCLC

• 1002270540
• 1002271093
• 1013948613

Doi

• 10.1515/9783110516371

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