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Reading the Old Testament in Antioch

By: Robert C. Hill

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Hardcover | 25 June 2026

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In the period between the councils of Nicea and Chalcedon in the fourth and fifth centuries, the faithful in the churches of the ecclesiastical district of Antioch were the beneficiaries of the ministry of the Word from distinguished pastors.
Included in this ministry were homilies on the Old Testament by John Chrysostom and written commentaries by his mentor Diodore and his fellow student Theodore, and later by Theodoret. Though the biblical text was admittedly Jewish in origin, "the text and the meaning are ours," claimed Chrysostom; and the great bulk of extant remains reveals the pastoral priority given to this often obscure material.
Students and exegetes of the Old Testament and its individual authors and books will be introduced here to Antioch s distinctive approach and interpretation by commentators reading their local form of the Greek Bible.
In the course of this survey, readers will gain an insight also into Antioch s worldview and its approach to the person of Jesus, to soteriology, morality and spirituality.

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"'As the translator of no fewer then twenty volumes of early Christian commentaries on books of the Old Testament from the region of Antioch, Dr Hill is qualified as no other scholar is to bring together in one volume a study of the exegetical methods of the great representatives of this area in Syria: Diodore of Tarsus, John Chrysostom, Theodore of Mopsuestia, and Theodoret of Cyrrhus. With its abundant references to primary texts in translation, this volume will help student and scholar alike to reassess the Old Testament works of a significant and distinctive group of early Christian biblical commentators who have been sometimes undervalued or, more often, misrepresented.' Pauline Allen (Australian Catholic University)."

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Non-Fiction Religion & Beliefs Christianity Biblical Studies & Exegesis Computing & I.T.Computer Science Mathematics Christian Churches, Denominations, Groups The Early Church

Tradition of the faith in Antioch	p. 1
The canon of the Old Testament in Antioch	p. 19
Antioch's concept of scriptural revelation	p. 27
The text of the Old Testament read in Antioch	p. 47
Exegetical skills and resources in Antioch	p. 63
Old Testament commentary in Antioch	p. 85
Antiochene approach to the task of commentary	p. 107
Interpreting the Old Testament in Antioch	p. 135
Theological accents in Old Testament commentary	p. 167
Pastoral and spiritual guidance	p. 183
Assessing Antioch's achievement	p. 195
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