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Record W2026361379 · doi:10.3138/tjt.21.2.153

Origen Reconsidered as an Exegete of Scripture

2005· article· en· W2026361379 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Matthew W.I. Dunn

Bibliographic record

VenueToronto Journal of Theology · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHistorical and Linguistic Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsExegesisReflexive pronounInterpretation (philosophy)PhilosophyLiteraturePessimismArtTheologyEpistemology

Abstract

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A reader sitting down for the first time to the writings of Origen (ca. 185- 253 CE) might be tempted to accuse him of making arbitrary interpretations of the scriptural text. Though possibly admiring the explanations given, he or she might reproach the ancient commentator for having taken advantage of scripture by setting out his own ideas instead of truly attending to the written word of God.! This has been a common reaction to Origen's interpretive practice. Indeed, the Alexandrian scholar's efforts at biblical exegesis have been viewed as hermeneutical artifacts to be examined and catalogued by modem exegetes but almost always placed in a mental "drawer": curios from a bygone era in the study of sacred scripture. Attempts to recover the strengths of Origen's exegesis and make it speak: to contemporary scholars have garnered few supporters. Consequently, his writings are largely dismissed by members of the biblical guild. I myself have shared this pessimism toward Origen's methodology and the results it can provide for the critical study of the sacred text. Yet, I would like to consider some examples from Origen's scriptural interpretation with the hope of opening a dialogue between the writings of the famed exegete and myself— and, perhaps, others as well.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.896
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.330
Teacher spread0.299 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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