Mind, Text, and Commentary : Noetic Exegesis in Origen of Alexandria, Didymus the Blind, and Evagrius Ponticus

Scholarship on early Christian exegesis is full of puzzlement at the commentator's apparent lack of concern for the literal or historical meaning of the text, usually explained as the result of an illegitimate allegorical method. This study comes to grips with the particularities of this type of interpretation by using tools from ethnography and literary criticism. By analysing the commentator's i...