Private Morality in Greece and Rome
Author | : W. den Boer |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004327746 |
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Author | : W. den Boer |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004327746 |
Author | : W. Den Boer |
Publisher | : Brill Archive |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789004059764 |
Author | : D. L. Clayman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Golden age (Mythology) in literature |
ISBN | : 9789004059764 |
Author | : Willem den Boer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : 9789004059764 |
Author | : Plutarch |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2022-05-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The Moralia is a group of manuscripts dating from the 10th-13th centuries. Their author is traditionally believed to be the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. The collection contains 78 essays and speeches concerning Roman and Greek life, morals, and social laws.
Author | : Bradley Gregory |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2010-02-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3110223678 |
This work explores the theological and social dimensions of generosity in the book of Sirach and contextualizes them within the culture and thought of Second Temple Judaism. Ben Sira’s understanding of generosity is predicated on the tension between affirming the classic wisdom principle of retributive justice and recognizing its breakdown in the socio-economic circumstances of Seleucid Judea. He forges a new Wisdom-Torah ethic of mercy in which giving generously is an integral part of living “the good life”. While loans and surety are essential practices, almsgiving is the preeminent act of generosity. The fundamental theological logic at work consists in viewing the poor as proxies for God and is based on the economic structure of Proverbs 19:17. Giving to the poor is, in reality, a deposit in a heavenly treasury and will pay future dividends. By situating Ben Sira’s view of almsgiving within the wider framework of retributive justice and its breakdown, new light is shed on the practical tensions regarding the extent of almsgiving and its relationship to the support of the Jerusalem priesthood. The various dynamics of Ben Sira’s thought on generosity are situated within the broader Hellenistic world and in their foundational role for later Jewish and Christian thought.
Author | : Roman Garrison |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2015-01-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1474230644 |
In the light of the New Testament's conviction that Jesus Christ died for sins, and that the Cross is a 'once for all' act that makes the Temple cult unnecessary, this challenging work probes the reasons for the emerging doctrine of redemptive almsgiving in early Christianity. Do the New Testament writers themselves (even Jesus!) implicitly endorse the view that a 'supplementary' or alternative means of atonement is necessary? What is the background of this theme in Graeco-Roman sources and in the Hebrew Bible? What are the principal texts in early Christian literature that advocate almsgiving as a 'ransom' for sin? These questions firmly govern this investigation of the social and theological forces that gave legitimacy to a doctrine that at first appears to contradict the primary New Testament soteriology, namely that the death of Jesus Christ is the exclusive means of redemption from sin.
Author | : Mervin Dilts |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004330313 |
A revised Greek Text (the first in a century) and English translation (the first in any modern language) of the Art of Political Speech by a writer known as the Anonymous Seguerianus (ca. A.D. 200) and the Art of Rhetoric of Apsines of Gadara (ca. A.D. 230), with introduction, notes, and indices. These works provide evidence of how rhetoric was taught in Greek in the early centuries of the Roman Empire and show the continued development of an Aristotelian tradition before acceptance of the reorganization of the subject by Hermogenes. They complement each other in that the Anonymous was especially interested in debates about rhetorical theory, while Apsines' primary interest was in analysis of speeches of Demosthenes and other orators and in teaching declamation.
Author | : Jean-Pierre Vernant |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1995-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226853833 |
What do we mean when we speak of ancient Greeks? A person from the Archaic period? The war hero celebrated by Homer? Or the fourth century "political animal" described by Aristotle? In this book, leading scholars show what it meant to be Greek during the classical period of Greek civilization. The Greeks offers the most complete portraits available of typical Greek personages from Athens to Sparta, Arcadia, Thessaly and Epirus to the city-states of Asia Minor, to the colonies of the Black Sea, southern Italy, and Sicily. Looking at the citizen, the religious believer, the soldier, the servant, the peasant, and others, they show what—in the Greek relationships with the divine, with nature, with others, and with the self—made him "different" in his ways of acting, thinking, and feeling. The contributors to this volume are Jean-Pierre Vernant, Claude Mosse, Yvon Garlan, Giuseppe Cambiano, Luciano Canfora, James Redfield, Charles Segal, Oswyn Murray, Mario Vegetti, and Philippe Borgeaud.
Author | : James R. Harrison |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 475 |
Release | : 2017-01-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532613466 |
Paul’s Language of Grace in Its Graeco-Roman Context was originally published by Mohr Siebeck in 2003 and is now reprinted by Wipf and Stock with a new introduction by its author, James R. Harrison. The book was the first major investigation of charis (‘grace’, ‘favor’) in its social, political, and religious context since G. P. Wetter’s pioneering 1913 monograph on the topic. Focusing on the evidence of the inscriptions, papyri, philosophers, and Greek Jewish literature, Harrison examined the operations of the eastern Mediterranean benefaction system, probing the dynamic of reciprocity between the beneficiary and benefactor, whether human or divine. Before Paul’s converts were first exposed to the gospel, they would have held a variety of beliefs regarding the beneficence of the gods. The apostle, therefore, needed to tailor his language of grace as much to the theological and social concerns of the Mediterranean city-states in his missionary outreach as to the variegated traditions of first-century Judaism. In terms of human grace, although Paul endorses the reciprocity system, he redefines its rationale in light of the gospel of grace and transforms its social expression in his house churches. The explosion of ‘grace’ language that occurs in 2 Corinthians 8–9 regarding the Jerusalem collection is unusual in its frequency in comparison to the honorific inscriptions, underscoring the apostle’s distinctive approach to giving. Regarding divine beneficence, Paul accommodates his gospel to contemporary benefaction idiom. But he retains a distinctiveness of viewpoint regarding divine charis: it is non-cultic; it is mediated through a dishonored and impoverished Benefactor; it overturns the do ut des expectation (‘I give so that you may give’) regarding divine blessing in antiquity. Harrison’s book still remains the authoritative coverage of the Graeco-Roman context of charis.