Ignatius Insight Scoop: A spectacular discovery was recently
made in the Bavarian State Library, in the process of
cataloguing the Greek manuscripts from the collection of Johann
Jakob Fuggers. While cataloguing a manuscript, Philologist
Marina Molin Pradel identified numerous texts of sermons on the
Psalms by Origen of Alexandria (AD 185 – 253/54), the most
important theologian of the early Christian church before
Augustine–sermons which until now had not been known in the
original. The importance of this find cannot be overestimated.
The attribution to Origen was confirmed, with the highest degree
of certainty, by internationally recognised Origen expert
Lorenzo Perrone from the University of Bologna. Read more here.