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Chapter 4 - Augustine’s hermeneutics

The science of the divinely given signs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2016

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Tarmo Toom
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Tarmo Toom
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Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Patristic Theories of Biblical Interpretation
The Latin Fathers
 , pp. 77 - 108
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Bochet, I. “Le firmament de l'Écriture”: l’herméneutique augustinienne, Collection Desétudes Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité 172. Paris: Institut d’Études Augustiniennes, 2004.Google Scholar
Cameron, M. Christ Meets Me Everywhere: Augustine’s Early Figurative Exegesis, Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cary, P. Outward Signs: The Powerlessness of External Things in Augustine’s Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jackson, B. D. “Semantics and Hermeneutics in Saint Augustine’s De doctrina Christiana.” Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1967.Google Scholar
Pollmann, K. Doctrina Christiana: Untersuchungen zu den Anfängen der christlichen Hermeneutik unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Augustinus, “De doctrina christiana,” Paradosis: Beiträge zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur und Theologie 41. Freiburg, Switzerland: Universitätsverlag, 1996.Google Scholar

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  • Augustine’s hermeneutics
  • Edited by Tarmo Toom, Georgetown University, Washington DC
  • Book: Patristic Theories of Biblical Interpretation
  • Online publication: 05 June 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107588967.004
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  • Augustine’s hermeneutics
  • Edited by Tarmo Toom, Georgetown University, Washington DC
  • Book: Patristic Theories of Biblical Interpretation
  • Online publication: 05 June 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107588967.004
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  • Augustine’s hermeneutics
  • Edited by Tarmo Toom, Georgetown University, Washington DC
  • Book: Patristic Theories of Biblical Interpretation
  • Online publication: 05 June 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107588967.004
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