This is the first English translation of Marius Victorinus' commentary on Galatians. Analytical notes, full bibliography, and a lengthy introduction make this book a valuable resource for the study of the first Latin commentator on Paul. No such comparable work exists in English; and this volume engages fully with German, French, and Italian scholarship on Victorinus' commentaries. A number of themes receive special treatment in a lengthy introduction: the relation
of Victorinus' exegetical efforts to the trinitarian debates; the iconography of the apostle Paul in mid-fourth-century Rome; Victorinus' exegetical methodology; his intentions as a commentator; and
the question of his influence on later Latin commentators (Ambrosiaster and Augustine).
This is the first English translation of Marius Victorinus' commentary on Galatians. Analytical notes, full bibliography, and a lengthy introduction make this book a valuable resource for the study of the first Latin commentator on Paul. No such comparable work exists in English; and this volume engages fully with German, French, and Italian scholarship on Victorinus' commentaries. A number of themes receive special treatment in a lengthy introduction: the relation
of Victorinus' exegetical efforts to the trinitarian debates; the iconography of the apostle Paul in mid-fourth-century Rome; Victorinus' exegetical methodology; his intentions as a commentator; and
the question of his influence on later Latin commentators (Ambrosiaster and Augustine).
I. Introduction
1: A chapter in the history of biblical exegesis
2: The life and times of Marius Victorinus
3: The apostle Paul in fourth-century Roman art
4: Exegesis and interpretation in Victorinus' commentaries
5: Situating Victorinus' commentaries on Paul
6: Influence of Victorinus' commentaries on later Latin
exegetes
II. Translation: Marius Victorinus on Galatians
1: Book I
2: Book II
Stephen Andrew Cooper is Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Franklin and Marshall College.
this book represents an achievement. It is well worth reading. Its display of scholarship is impressive, including its discussion of international scholarship. Cooper has made an important contribution to the study of life and work of Marius Victorinus, Latin Paulinism and early Christian Pauline exegesis. Josef Lossl, The Classical Review This work is impressively learned The Journal of Theological Studies
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