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Arator on the Acts of the Apostles : A Baptismal Commentary - Richard Dr Hillier

Arator on the Acts of the Apostles

A Baptismal Commentary

By: Richard Dr Hillier

Hardcover | 20 May 1993

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Baptism for the early Christians was a subject of crucial importance, and its symbolism fired the imagination of writers throughout the Christian world. Arator, the Roman sub-deacon who wrote a verse-commentary on the Acts of the Apostles in A.D. 544, was no exception. The Historia Apostolica is a work of historical importance. Written at a time of crisis, politically and theologically, it is of interest as propaganda for a papacy under threat from Constantinople. But Arator's concentration on baptismal themes offers vital evidence of the transmission of exegetical ideas in late antiquity. This book is the first major work on Arator in English and the first ever to study the Historia Apostolica as biblical commentary. Passages of particular baptismal importance are presented both in the original Latin and in a new translation, and are considered in the context of the writings of earlier Christian commentators. Hillier's study is a wide-ranging study of the popularity and potency
of baptismal symbolism in the first six centuries A.D.
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'a book which it is a pleasure to read ... It is a fascinating work.' C.K. Barrett, The Expository Times

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