Dominique Grima, o.p., un éxégète thomiste à Toulouse au début du XIVe siècle

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Morard (Martin), Dominique Grima o.p., a Thomistic exegete in Toulouse at the beginning of the fourteenth century. By order of the head of the Dominicans and encouraged by Jean XXII, Dominique Grima (c. 1274-1347) wrote his Lectura super Bibliam with the intention of making it serve as an example. Although it has never been taught at university, it is a first-rate testimony to scholastic exegesis, papal support of biblical studies and the faith the Dominicans from the South of France had in Thomas Aquinas. Its only subject was the Pentateuch and the historical books of the Bible, this second part having possibly been written after the dedicatory epistle (1319). An analysis of the text gives an idea of the documentation, contents and of what was actually taught at the studium Biblie in Toulouse between about 1313 and 1321. It reveals the intention of basing the pastoral practise intended for its audience on a direct knowledge of the Scriptures, backed up by systematic reflection, certainly dogmatic, but with a very strong moral aim. The works of Thomas Aquinas play a major role, without Grima demonstrating any particularly originality. The extant manuscripts in France, all of Southern origin, were produced at fairly close intervals of time but reflect two slightly different versions of the standard one.