Dear Mark,
Thanks for your prompt reply. The text and gloss came from the
Regius Psalter, a 10th cen. English ms with Romanum psalms, Old English
interlinear gloss and Latin scholia. The Latin scholia had the
diabolical comments and probably prompted the OE gloss, but I (and
others) tracked them into Cassiodorus. Although the glossa does not
have gates of death/devil, the Eadwine Psalter, my main interest, does
have it in the OE gloss (derived from Regius most likely).
For the moment, I was just using this passage of Regius to
illustrate how knowledge of patristic exegesis of the psalms was fairly
commonly known and employed. For an article, I was trying to come up
with an adjective to identify the kind of interpretation being engaged
in here and was stumped. I suppose "spiritual" is best, particularly
given the corporal nature of death and its meaning here as spiritual
death. In the long run, I am interested in the ways in which the devil
is identified both with "enemies" (another spiritual interpretation,
literally "demonizing the enemy" if you will) and with death, especially
in some of the illustrations of the psalms.
Karen
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Dr. Karen Jolly
Associate Professor, History
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
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