1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther: Volume 5

by Marco Conti, Thomas C. Oden

Overview

The church fathers, as they did in earlier books dealing with Israel's history from the time of Joshua to the united monarchy, found ample material for typological and moral interpretation in 1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther. It will be immediately clear to readers of this volume that they gave much more attention to 1-2 Kings than to others; whether this was due to a certain repetitiveness in the story line or other reasons is unclear. But the narratives of wise King Solomon, the construction of the temple, the prophets Elijah and Elisha, and the fates of various faithful and unfaithful kings and other powerful people were well suited to their purposes.

Among Greek commentators in this Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture volume, readers will find Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Methodius, Eusebius of Caesarea, Athanasius, Cyril of Jerusalem, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, John Chrysostom, Cyril of Alexandria, Theodoret of Cyr, Procopius of Gaza and John the Monk. Among Latin commentators are Tertullian, Cyprian, Novatian, Lactantius, Ambrose, Jerome, Prudentius, Augustine, Paulinus of Nola, John Cassian, Peter Chrysologus, Maximus of Turin, Salvian the Presbyter, Fulgentius of Ruspe, Caesarius of Arles, Gregory the Great, Bede and Rabanus Maurus. Syriac commentators include Aphrahat, Ephrem, Sahdona, Isaac of Nineveh and Isho'dad of Merv.

Together they set before readers a table of delights and theological insights, some of which are here available to English readers for the first time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780830814756
Publisher:	InterVarsity Press
Publication date:	05/21/2008
Series:	Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture , #5
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

Marco Conti (Ph.D., University of Leeds) is professor of medieval and humanistic Latin literature at the Ateneo Salesiano and lecturer in classical mythology and religions of the Roman Empire at the Richmond University in Rome.

Thomas C. Oden (1931–2016), was the general editor of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture and the Ancient Christian Doctrine series as well as the author of Classic Christianity, a revision of his three-volume systematic theology. He was the director of the Center for Early African Christianity at Eastern University in Pennsylvania and he served as the Henry Anson Buttz Professor of Theology at The Theological School of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Oden was active in the Confessing Movement in America, particularly within the United Methodist Church and was president of The Institute for Classical Christian Studies. He suggested that Christians need to rely upon the wisdom of the historical Church, particularly the early Church, rather than on modern scholarship and theology and said his mission was "to begin to prepare the postmodern Christian community for its third millennium by returning again to the careful study and respectful following of the central tradition of classical Christianity."

Table of Contents

General Introduction

A Guide to Using This Commentary

Abbreviations

Introduction to 1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther

Commentary on 1 Kings

Commentary on 2 Kings

Commentary on 1 Chronicles

Commentary on 2 Chronicles

Commentary on Ezra

Commentary on Nehemiah

Commentary on Esther

Appendix: Early Christian Writers and the Documents Cited

Biographical Sketches

Timeline of Writers of the Patristic Period

Bibliography of Works in Original Languages

Bibliography of Works in English Translation

Authors/Writings Index

Subject Index

Scripture Index