Les prologues des commentaires de Cyrille d’Alexandrie sur les Prophètes : analyse d’ensemble

Zaganas, Dimitrios
(2022) Vetera Christianorum — Vol. 59, p. 199-213 (2022)

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This article offers a general analysis of the prologues of Cyril of Alexandria’s "Commentaries on the Twelve Prophets and on Isaiah", following the schema that J.-N. Guinot outlined for Theodoret of Cyrus. In his prologues, Cyril takes care to justify his exegetical enterprise to those who, in the 5th century, would consider it useless because of the already existing commentaries, and to define the principles which govern it, by giving priority to the historical-literal sense and by taking his distances from Origen’s allegorical method. In addition, he stresses the need to situate the Prophets in the Jewish history and to provide the historical context of their prophecy, and he identifies the main purpose of each prophecy mainly in relation to its Old Testament meaning.
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Zaganas, D. (2022). Les prologues des commentaires de Cyrille d’Alexandrie sur les Prophètes : analyse d’ensemble. Vetera Christianorum, 59, 199-213. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/100282 (Original work published 2022)