The Letter of the Law: Carolingian Exegetes and the Old Testament
Abigail Firey
Abstract The favored authorities of Carolingian intellectuals—Augustine, Gregory, Jerome, Ambrose—left no works dedicated specifically to detailed exegesis Leviticus. Hrabanus Maurus relied on Hesychius and Origen, the latter only author mentioned by Cassiodorus as an interpreter Leviticus in description his cabinets biblical commentaries. Not was addressed intermittently most patristic writers, but few exegetes chose explore it systematically after Claudius Hrabanus. While might appear that were simply victims social obligations a highly systematized, programmatic approach studies which commentators marched through books Old Testament sequence, their commentaries could have been composed context volatile cultural milieu. These may well mark important stage development Christians' perception Jews Other, terms not doctrine, also culture.
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