Great news! A correspondent writes to say that two important French works on commentaries and catenae on the Psalms are now available online in full:
1) M.-J. Rondeau, Les Commentaires patristiques du Psautier (IIIe-Ve siècles), 2 vols, OCA 219-220, Roma 1982, 1985.
- Vol. 1: https://books.google.com/books?id=VT9iAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
- Vol. 2: https://books.google.com/books?id=fz5iAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
2) G. Dorival, Les chaînes exégétiques grecques sur les Psaumes: contribution à l’étude d’une forme littéraire, 4 vols, Leuven 1986, 1989, 1992, 1995.
- Vol. 1: https://books.google.com/books?id=rAeA–Esw1gC&source=gbs_navlinks_s
- Vol. 2: https://books.google.com/books?id=axYXAAAAIAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
- Vol. 3: https://books.google.com/books?id=me0WAAAAIAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
- Vol. 4 (only preview for now): https://books.google.com/books?id=1J2sQ8tOYtAC
These are tremendously useful, and one can only congratulate the publishers, Peeters, and the Pontifical Institute in Rome, respectively. These highly specialist tomes now stand a chance of being read!
Thank you very much!
I am profoundly grateful to the gentleman who drew my attention to this. How marvellous to have these accessible!
Dorival also has an article on the history of catenae in the recent volume I edited on ‘Commentaries, Catenae and Biblical Tradition’. It is available on the Gorgias Press Open Access Repository (although the server is currently being migrated so the repository is currently off line). See
http://gorgiaspress.com/bookshop/t-openaccess_description.aspx
Thank you so much for drawing my attention to this! Any idea when the server will be back?
The new Gorgias online repository is now available at https://www.gorgiaspress.com/gorgias-open-repository
The book on catenae can be downloaded at: https://www.gorgiaspress.com/Content/files/GorgiasOpen/978-1-4632-0576-8.pdf
Thank you so much for letting me know about this! I’m tied up at the moment with domestic stuff, but this deserves a blog post.