Hélène GRELIER-DENEUX: The fragments of Apolinaris of Laodicea on the Psalms: Which contribution for christological doctrine?

This paper aims to present the method of exegesis of Apolinaris of Laodicea on the psalms and how he reads some of them as testimonia of Christ, based on the fragments preserved and edited by E. Mühlenberg (Psalmenkommentare aus der Katenenenüberlieferung, PTS 15, Berlin, 1975, p. 3-117). The challenge is to characterize Apolinaris' christological reading of the corpus of psalms in the anti-Arian polemic, in particular, and to see to what extent it sheds light on the content of the doctrinal fragments of the Laodicean. The aim will be to examine whether it makes it possible to resolve lexical contradictions or at least to explain the diversity of anthropological terminologies used to designate the human compound in the corpus of doctrinal fragments published by H. Lietzmann (Apollinaris von Laodicea und seine Schule, Tübingen, 1904) which some critics have interpreted according to a chronological criterion on the basis of the remarks of the ancient historian Rufin (Ve s.). To date, no detailed cross-sectional studies of Apolinaris' literary production, both exegetical and doctrinal, has been carried out in such a way as to cross-reference the results according to the nature of the corpuses. This paper would simply like to take advantage of the apolinarian exegesis of some of psalms to contribute to a better understanding of apolinarism in the meshing of christological debates.