TY - BOOK ID - 142265779 TI - Learning the language of Scripture : origen, wisdom, and the logic of interpretation PY - 2021 SN - 9004448543 9004448535 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Linguistics. KW - Origen. KW - Bible. KW - Bible KW - Sermons. KW - Hermeneutics. KW - Historiography. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142265779 AB - In Learning the Language of Scripture , Mark Randall James offers a new account of theological interpretation as a sapiential practice of learning the language of Scripture, drawing on recently discovered Homilies on the Psalms by the influential early theologian Origen of Alexandria (2nd-3rd c. C.E) Widely regarded as one of the most arbitrary interpreters, James shows that Origen's appearance of arbitrariness is a result of the modern tendency to neglect the role of wisdom in scriptural interpretation. James demonstrates that Origen offers a compelling model of a Christian pragmatism in which learning and correcting linguistic practice is a site of the transformative pedagogy of the divine Logos. ER -