Il greco di un cristiano: il caso di Origene. Note sintattiche e stilistiche in margine a un passo origeniano (Homilia II in psalmum LXXVI)

Language and style of many ancient Christian authors have received over time, from secondary literature, an attention that is certainly too little overall. It is therefore not surprising that an author such as Origen, rightly considered the noble father of Christian biblical exegesis, has received so little attention over the centuries with regard to the constitutive linguistic structures of his writings. Through an essay of literary ana- lysis – morphosyntactic and stylistic – of a recently discovered Origenian text (Homilia II in Psalmum LXXVI, 1), it can be said that our author really seems to have fully as- similated the essence of the methods of rhetoric.