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By Jeffrey Burton Russell
The entire identified theories and incidents of witchcraft in Western Europe from the 5th to the 15th century are brilliantly set forth during this enticing and finished history.Building on a beginning of newly found fundamental assets and up to date secondary interpretations, Professor Russell first establishes the proof after which explains the phenomenon of witchcraft by way of its social and spiritual surroundings, really relating to medieval heresies. He treats ecu witchcraft as a made from Christianity, grounded in heresy greater than within the magic and sorcery that experience existed in different societies. Skillfully mixing narration with research, he indicates how social and spiritual alterations nourished the unfold of witchcraft till huge parts of medieval Europe have been in its grip—"from the main illiterate peasant to the main expert thinker or scientist."A major bankruptcy within the heritage of rules and their repression is illuminated by means of this e-book. Our growing to be fascination with the occult offers the author's confirmation that witchcraft arises now and then and in parts with social tensions a different caliber of immediacy.
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2 (1985), 295-308. 49 Exposition, PG 27. 57-545; Titles, PG 27. 649-1344. 50 See Rondeau, Les commentaires patristiques, i, 79-87. 5' Vir. ill. 87. 24 Introduction five parts, and that the order (Ta6,) does not follow the historical sequence. In close dependence on Eusebius, he then attributes the confused order of the psalms to their loss and random rediscovery. Two additional topics of commentary introductions may also be mentioned by Athanasius. There is a brief consideration of some of the inscriptions, but only in the context of the discussion of the authorship of the psalms and the reason the whole collection is referred to David, which is very different from the way they are treated by Origen and GregoryY C.
These latter were, however, discussions of titles of works. ' I, and cf. Ps. Hippolytus frag. 7), and clearly has a lengthy discussion of the title of the Song of Songs in the introduction to his commentary on that book (Cant. Pro!. 4). 7' Origene, 275-80, 262-75. Gregory's Exegetical Method 29 of his predecessors. 72 Gregory discusses them in the context of a quasi JewishChristian debate over their meaning in relation to Christ. a (II. 114-30), he begins by stating the view of his predecessors, which must mean primarily Origen.
Tardieu (Paris, 1987),99-122, esp. , however, has shown Praechter's view to be invalid. She thinks both Porphyry and Origen used these categories of commentary introductions, though sometimes without the technical vocabulary. See also my discussion of their appearance in Alexander of Aphrodisias in R. E. Heine, 'The Introduction to Origen's Commentary on John Compared with the Introductions to the Ancient Philosophical Commentaries on Aristotle', in Origeniana Sexta (forthcoming). Origen discusses the skopos of the Holy Spirit in the Scriptures in Prine.