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Solutions to Thirty-Eight Questions — Hildegard of Bingen

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Solutions to Thirty-Eight Questions

Solutiones triginta octo quaestionum

Hildegarda recibe la visión y la dicta a Volmar (Scivias de Rupertsberg)
byHildegard of Bingen

Thirty-eight difficulties of Scripture (paradise, the cherubim, the soul of Samuel, Saint Paul's words on the third heaven) resolved by Hildegard with the authority of her vision. It shows how learned monks consulted her at the end of her life and how she combined exegesis, polemic and prophecy.

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Authorship note

Answers to the questions that Guibert of Gembloux and the Cistercian monks of Villers (Brabant) sent her around 1176. Critical edition by Christopher P. Evans in CCCM 226A (2016). It is also grouped with other short writings under the entry 'Minor Works'.

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Latín

  • S. Hildegardis abbatissae opera omnia (Patrologia Latina, 197)

    J.-P. Migne, 1855

    Edición antigua, superada por el Corpus Christianorum; digitalizada en Internet Archive.

  • Hildegardis Bingensis Opera minora II (CCCM 226A) — Hildegard of Bingen

    Hildegardis Bingensis Opera minora II (CCCM 226A)

    Brepols, 2016

    ISBN 9782503548371

    Edición crítica de Christopher P. Evans.

Other works by Hildegard of Bingen

Sources

  • Brepols Publishers. Hildegardis Bingensis, Opera minora II, ed. Christopher P. Evans, Jeroen Deploige, Sara Moens, Michael Embach y Kurt Gärtner. Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 226A. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. ISBN 9782503548371 (ficha editorial con el índice del volumen).

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