Abbey of Saint-Victor

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Abbey of Saint-Victor

abbey, Paris, France

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biblical literature
The medieval period
One such center was the Abbey of Saint-Victor at Paris, where Hugh (died 1141) compiled biblical commentaries that fill three volumes of Jacques-Paul Migne’s (1800–75) Patrologiae Cursus Completus (Series Latina) and indicate the commentator’s dependence on Rashi as well as on his Christian predecessors. Of Hugh’s disciples, Andrew, abbot of…
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One such center was the Abbey of Saint-Victor at Paris, where Hugh (died 1141) compiled biblical commentaries that fill three volumes of Jacques-Paul Migne’s (1800–75) Patrologiae Cursus Completus (Series Latina) and indicate the commentator’s dependence on Rashi as well as on his Christian predecessors. Of Hugh’s disciples, Andrew, abbot of…
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