{"product_id":"robert-holcot-exegete-ralph-hanna-9781802074642","title":"Robert Holcot, Exegete: Selections from the Commentary on Minor Prophets, with Translation and Commentary","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Holcot (d. 1349) was a Dominican friar, most prominently connected with the convent in Oxford where he became a Doctor of Theology. Holcot is perhaps most famous today, following an important discussion by Heiko Obermann in the 1960s, for his 'semi-Pelagian' theological views. In contrast to traditional Augustinianism, he believed that God granted salvation to individuals on the basis of 'bonum quod in se est', that is, on the basis of an individual's intention to do good, rather than any achievement. While historians of theology know Holcot in these terms, his wide medieval reputation was rather different. Holcot was read all over Europe as an exegete, an explicator of biblical texts, especially the Old Testament sapiential books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume presents a selection, nearly a quarter of the whole, from Holcot's readings in the minor prophets, originally delivered in the 1330s as lectures in Oxford's Dominican \u003ci\u003estudium\u003c\/i\u003e. In a commentary appended to the text, it uses these selections to offer a view of exegesis, and of Holcot's strategies, that differs from customary scholarship on the topic. The commentary attempts to clarify the relation between Holcot's usually tacit discussion (a feature perhaps driven by the fact that the received text represents a \u003ci\u003ereportatio\u003c\/i\u003e or outline, not a stenographic transcription) and the biblical text at hand. It further addresses some argumentative features, principally Holcot's use of narrative and of imagistic \u003ci\u003edistinctiones\u003c\/i\u003e. The volume is fully annotated, with a facing-page translation, numerous references to analogous discussions elsewhere in Holcot (including his classic \u003ci\u003eSuper Sapientiam Salamonis\u003c\/i\u003e), and full indexes of Holcot's biblical references, his parallel treatments, and his sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ralph Hanna\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1802074643\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781802074642\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55d","brand":"Ralph Hanna","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45064878326015,"sku":"9781802074642","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dd7aee4f-6d21-4960-bca2-a1682b1e1463.jpg?v=1712125157","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/robert-holcot-exegete-ralph-hanna-9781802074642","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}