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Commentaries on Genesis 1–3: Homilies on Creation and Fall and Commentary on Genesis: Book I is unavailable, but you can change that!

The church fathers displayed considerable interest in the early chapters of Genesis, and often wrote detailed commentaries or preached series of homilies on the Hexameron—the Six Days of Creation—among them Eustathius of Antioch, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Ambrose, John Chrysostom and Augustine. This volume of Ancient Christian Texts offers a first-time English...

way to the revitalization of religious faith and community through a renewed discovery of the earliest readings of the church’s Scriptures. This prompts two appeals: 1. For those who begin by assuming as normative for a commentary only the norms considered typical for modern expressions of what a commentary is, we ask: Please allow the ancient commentators to define commentarius according to their own lights. Those who assume the preemptive authority
Pages xi–xii
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