Homilies on the Psalms

Homiliae in Psalmos · Ὁμιλίαι εἰς τοὺς Ψαλμούς

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Contents

Reading pages: 2.1–5.25 · 6.1–12.22 · 13.1–17.13 · 18.1–20.21 · 21.1–25.40 · 27.1–31.8

About this work

Author
Asterius the Sophist
Attribution
disputed · The homilies come down mostly under the name of John Chrysostom. Richard (1956) prints thirty-one pieces in manuscript order and holds some to be Asterius's (the commentary extracts, several Easter-week panegyrics) while reserving judgment on others; this entry lists only the pieces and parts he assigns to Asterius or does not question (homilies 2-9, 11-13, 15-23, 25, 27 sections 1-8, 28 sections 1-7, 29-31). Left out as doubtful or not his: homilies 1, 10, 14, 24, 26, the rest of 27, and the interpolated rest of 28.
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. A teacher of rhetoric and defender of Arius, in the Eusebian party that held most of the eastern church's sees in his lifetime, so not outside the church of his own generation; not venerated by Catholics, Orthodox, or Protestants.
Date
ca. 320-341 (approximate) · Asterius wrote in the years of the Arian controversy after Nicaea; the homilies are not dated more closely.
Written at
Antioch, Syria (disputed)
Language
Greek
Genre
homily
Reference system
homily.section (Richard's numbering of the homilies I-XXXI as printed, and his section numbers)
SBL abbreviation
Hom. Ps.Not yet checked
Clavis
CPG 2815 (not yet checked)
Edition
Marcel Richard, ed., Asterii Sophistae Commentariorum in Psalmos quae supersunt, accedunt aliquot homiliae anonymae, Symbolae Osloenses, Fasc. Supplet. 16 (Oslo: Brogger, 1956) (cited, not reproduced)
Critical editions
Marcel Richard, ed., Asterii Sophistae Commentariorum in Psalmos quae supersunt, accedunt aliquot homiliae anonymae, Symbolae Osloenses, Fasc. Supplet. 16 (Oslo: Brogger, 1956) (cited, not reproduced)

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