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O'Donnell, James Joseph was born on February 26, 1950 in Giessen, Federal Republic Germany. Son of James J. and Helen T. (Murphy) O'D.
(The Confessions of Augustine have long both demanded and ...)
The Confessions of Augustine have long both demanded and eluded the sustained and serious attention to detail that a scholarly commentary can provide. The present work, which is in three volumes, seeks to supplement that lack. A revised Latin text of the Confessions in Volume I forms the basis for a detailed line-by-line commentary (Volumes II-III) designed to elucidate the many layers of meaning in the work. Placing the emphasis primarily on exegesis, Professor O'Donnell opens up new lines of interpretation, as well as giving an abundance of fresh detail to some more familiar themes. At the same time, he clears the way for further scholarly work by furnishing the materials for others to draw on and press the task of interpretation further. A particular feature of the commentary is its attention to the influences in the Confessions of other texts of the Greek and Latin traditions - biblical, ecclesiastical, philosophical, and literary; whilst the place of the Confessions in Augustine's own life and in the history of Christian literature is also illuminated with greater precision.
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O'Donnell, James Joseph was born on February 26, 1950 in Giessen, Federal Republic Germany. Son of James J. and Helen T. (Murphy) O'D.
Bachelor, Princeton University, 1972; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1975; Master of Arts (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1982.
Lecturer in Latin, Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) College, 1975-1976; assistant professor, Catholic U. American, Washington, 1976-1977; assistant professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1977-1981; associate professor, graduate chair, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1981-1989; professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1990; vice provost information system and computing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1996. Visiting professor Johns Hopkins, 1993, U. Washington, 1995.
(The Confessions of Augustine have long both demanded and ...)
(The Confessions of Augustine have long both demanded and ...)
(From the Caroliingian epoch to the end of the Middle Ages...)
Member American Philological Association (board directors), Medieval Academy American (councillor since 1996), North American Patristics Society, Society for the Promotion of Eriugenian Studies.