Thesis
Interpreting vision: a survey of patristic reception of the Transfiguration and its earliest depiction, with special reference to the Gospel of Luke
- Abstract:
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This thesis shows that patristic interpretation of the Transfiguration had a sensitivity to visionary and ecstatic motifs within the synoptic Transfiguration narratives, and particularly Luke’s, which prompted a rich breadth of hermeneutic interaction with our texts. I offer the evidence of my survey of the reception history of the Transfiguration in the first 900 years of Christian history as a way of filling a number of gaps in knowledge in modern biblical scholarship concerning the Tran...
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+ Rowland, C
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Theology Faculty
Sub department:
Theology and Religion Faculty
Role:
Supervisor
Funding
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2014
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:12548
- Deposit date:
- 2016-07-18
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- Copyright holder:
- Peter Anthony
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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