@inbook{f49d8f52ec934601a1d624152c5f096f,
title = "Wisdom in Patristic Interpretation: Scriptural and Cosmic Unity in Athanasius{\textquoteright} Exegesis of Proverbs 8:22 ",
abstract = "This essay explores the way in which wisdom language is used in the patristic period to articulate two corresponding unities: scriptural and cosmic. It does so through a focus on Athanasius{\textquoteright} treatment of Proverbs 8:22 in the context of the {\textquoteleft}Arian{\textquoteright} controversy, showing how his christological identification of Wisdom (quite alien to the modern exegete) arises naturally from the intertextual reading practice he shares with most other authors from the period. It makes sense of this practice (which is equally alien to the modern exegete) in terms of a wisdom hermeneutic according to which the unity of Scripture is akin less to a plot than to an interconnected set of proverbs. It shows how Athanasius{\textquoteright} hermeneutic, for which Scripture is a unity, corresponds to an understanding of the unity of the cosmos in Christ as the Wisdom through which it was both created and renewed.",
keywords = "Wisdom, Athanasius, Proverbs 8:22, Arian Controversy, Christ, Hermeneutics, Scripture, Intertextual, Cosmos, Unity",
author = "Susannah Ticciati",
year = "2021",
month = jan,
day = "1",
language = "English",
series = "Oxford Handbook Series",
publisher = "Oxford University Press (OUP)",
editor = "Will Kynes",
booktitle = "The Oxford Handbook of Wisdom and Wisdom Literature",
}