Commentary on the Gospels: English translation and introduction

Fortunatianus Aquileiensis

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2017

Commentary on the Gospels

English translation and introduction

Fortunatianus Aquileiensis
Translated by: H. A. G. Houghton

Volume [Extra Seriem] in the series Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110516371

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About this book

Open Access

In 2012, Lukas Dorfbauer identified a manuscript in Cologne Cathedral Library as a copy of the Commentary on the Gospels by Fortunatianus, bishop of Aquileia in the middle of the fourth century. This discovery enabled him to identify further witnesses to the commentary and works dependent on it. Dorfbauer's critical edition, to be published in the CSEL series in 2017, makes this work available to scholarship for the first time in over a millennium.

The discovery of a new work from late antiquity is always a landmark in the history of research. This extensive commentary shines new light on fourth-century biblical interpretation and the exegetical practices and literary work of an African bishop ministering in north Italy in this period. What is more, it appears to be dependent on works by Origen and Victorinus of Poetovio which are no longer preserved.

In order to make this important work available to a wider audience, Dr Houghton has prepared an English translation and introduction in conjunction with the COMPAUL project on the earliest commentaries on the New Testament as sources for the biblical text.

Author / Editor information

H.A.G. Houghton, University of Birmingham, UK.

Reviews

"[...] fine translation [...]"
D. H. Williams in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.09.51

"This is a scholarly but simple and accessible presentation for the general reader of a source which had been lost [...]"
Colin McDonald in: Classics for All, 22.12.2017, https://classicsforall.org.uk/book-reviews/fortunatianus-aquileia-commentary-gospels/

"Andere werden über Generationen auf die grundlegenden Arbeiten Dorfbauers zurückgreifen;"
Christina M. Kreinecker in: Gnomon 91/3 (2019), 226-230

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Translator’s Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Bibliography Publicly Available Download PDF	XXV
Translation: Fortunatianus of Aquileia, Commentary on the Gospels Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Indices Publicly Available Download PDF	119

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: New Testament scholars and students, historians of late antiquity, Christian exegetes.
Pages
- Front matter: 26
- Main content: 128
Keywords: Fortunatianus; gospel; commentary; English translation from Latin

eBook

Published: August 21, 2017
ISBN: 9783110516371

Hardcover

Published: August 21, 2017
ISBN: 9783110524208