Die Homilien und Fragmente zum Hohelied

by Alfons Fürst (editor), Holger Strutwolf (Editor)

Origen (185–254), ancient theologian and philosopher, has had a profound influence on Christian theology and the whole history of European thought with his academic mindset and his original thinking on topics such as liberty, history and justice. This bilingual edition in 25 volumes aims to make his complete writings available and accessible to scholars across a range of disciplines as a rich historical resource for present-day problems in religious culture, theology, philosophy and ethics. All texts are presented in a modern translation – many of them for the first time in German translation. The source texts are partly taken from modern editions and are partly newly edited. Each volume is provided with an introduction to the works and commentaries on the texts and their translation. Hieronymus claimed that Origen had even surpassed himself in his Commentary on the Song of Songs. With these words of praise, Hieronymus spread the good word about the Christian genius from Alexandria and, for this purpose, translated two of Origen’s homilies on the Biblical song of love into Latin. Besides Rufinus’s Latin translation, only a number of small fragments of this presentation of the Song of Songs have survived.

294 pages, Hardcover

Published September 12, 2016