Meister Eckhart's Treatise on Being, What Is, and Nothing, and the Relationship Between His Commentaries on Genesis (Expositio on Genesis and Book of the Parables of Genesis)

Abstract

This article shows firs that the text hitherto known as the Prologue to the Works of Propositions by Meister Eckhart is in fact his treatise On Being, What is, and Nothing, to which he himself refers in his Sermons and Lectures on the Twenty-fourth Chapter of «Ecclesiasticus». The article also analyses the relationship between the two extant commentaries on Genesis by Eckhart: the Expositio on Genesis and the Book of the Parables of Genesis.