Compilazioni esegetiche: Agostino, Isidoro e altri

The Augustine’s interpretation of an episode of the First Book of Samuel (2,1-10) in civ. XVII and the exegetical ways subsequently proposed by Isidorus, Beda and Rhaban Maurus allows to analyze the phenomenon of the circulation, compilation and variation of exegetical items between Late Antiquity and the Middle Age. The comparison of the quoted passages both offers a clear documentation of the early Augustine’s magisterium and of the reception of his literary and theological production, and also testifies to the compilatory attitude, characteristic of the compositional aspects of the prose of the subsequent esegetes; the analysis also illustrates the tendency to derive selected material from Augustine depending on the writing context and on the destination of the work.