Plutarch's Theological Writings and Early Christian Literature
Author: Hans Dieter Betz
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9789004039858
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9789004039858
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hans Dieter Betz
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-08-21
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 900467232X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hans Dieter Betz
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-04-12
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9004672338
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-01-17
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9004505075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Bridging Discourses in the World of the Early Roman Empire" is a fitting description of both the religio-philosophical spirit of Plutarch and the task of bringing his writings into fruitful dialogue with the New Testament and Early Christian writings. The contributions in this volume explore various ways of how to do it.
Author: Helen Rhee
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-04-28
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1134256590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Helen Rhee’s outstanding work is the first book to bring together The Apologies and the semi-fictional Apocryphal Acts and Martyr Acts in a single study. Filling a significant gap in the scholarship, she looks at Christian self definition and self representation in the context of pagan-Christian conflict. Using an interdisciplinary approach; historical, literary, theological, sociological, and anthropological, Rhee studies the Christians in the formative period of their religion; from mid first to early third centuries. She examines how the forms of Greco-Roman society were adapted by the Christians to present the superiority of Christian monotheism, Christian sexual morality, and Christian (dis)loyalty to the Empire. Tackling broad topics, including theology, asceticism, sexuality and patriotism, this book explores issues of cultural identity and examines how these propagandist writings shaped the theological, moral and political trajectories of Christian faith and contributed largely to the definition of orthodoxy. This thorough study will benefit all students of early Christianity and Greco-Roman literary culture and civilization.
Author: Everett Ferguson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 9780802822215
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New to this expanded & updated edition are revisions of Ferguson's original material, updated bibliographies, & a fresh dicussion of first century social life, the Dead Sea Scrolls & much else.
Author: David Edward Aune
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 620
ISBN-13: 9780664219178
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Westminster Dictionary of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric details the variety of literary and rhetorical forms found in the New Testament and in the literature of the early Christian church. This authoritative reference source is a treasury for understanding the methods employed by New Testament and early Christian writers. Aune's extensive study will be of immense value to scholars and all those interested in the ways literary and rhetorical forms were used and how they functioned in the early Christian world. This unique and encyclopedic study will serve generations of scholars and students by illuminating the ways words shaped the consciousness of those who encountered Christian teachings.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-11-23
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9004443541
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The polygraph from Chaeronea includes in Moralia and Lives a wide range of interesting views on religious and philosophical matters: philosophical theology, cult, ethics, politics, natural sciences, hermeneutics, atheism, and the afterlife. The essays included in Plutarch’s Religious Landscapes offer a glance into these views.
Author: Fred Schurink
Publisher: MHRA
Published: 2020-12-04
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1781880530
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Plutarch was one of the most popular classical authors in Renaissance England. These volumes present nine Tudor and Stuart translations from his Essays and Lives with a General Introduction locating these works in the context of Plutarch’s wider influence in early modern England. They offer selections from two of the classics of English Renaissance translation, North’s Lives (1579) and Holland’s Morals (1603): the essays ‘On Reading the Poets’ and ‘Talkativeness’ and the Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero and Caesar. They also include editions of a number of less well-known but equally significant translations of individual Essays and Lives, one available in manuscript alone until now and several not reprinted since the sixteenth century: Thomas Wyatt’s The Quiet of Mind (1528), Thomas Elyot’s The Education or Bringing up of Children (1528–30), Thomas Blundeville’s The Learned Prince (1561), and Henry Parker, Lord Morley’s The Story of Paullus Aemilius (1542–46/7). Detailed annotations trace how translators drew on, and departed from, Greek, Latin, and French editions of Plutarch while introductions to each of the works examine their impact on English Renaissance literature and culture. By presenting a wide range of translations from the Essays and Lives, the volumes bring to light the variety of translation practices and the different social, political, and cultural contexts in which Plutarch was read and translated in Tudor and Stuart England.
Author: David Holgate
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1999-08-01
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1841270253
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This monograph interprets the parable of the Prodigal Son (Lk. 15.11-32) in the light of Graeco-Roman popular moral philosophy. Luke's special parables are rarely studied in this way, but the results of this study are very fruitful. The unity of the parable is supported, and it is shown to be deeply concerned with a major Lukan theme: the right use of possessions. The whole parable is read in terms of the moral topos 'on covetousness', and shown to be an endorsement of the Graeco-Roman virtue of liberality, modified by the Christian virtue of compassion.