Mos Christianorum

Author : James Petitfils
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161539044

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Mos Christianorum by James Petitfils Pdf

The preferred moral curriculum of a Roman education abounded with exemplary stories of Rome's native heroes. To inculcate conceptions of virtuous leadership, politicians and populace alike deployed exempla as rhetorical vehicles of the mos maiorum (way of the ancestors). James Petitfils explores Jewish and Christian participation in this widespread pedagogical practice. After surveying Roman discourse on exemplary leadership, the author consults several texts, written in significantly Romanized environments, celebrating Jewish or Christian ancestral leaders (Josephus' Antiquities 2-4, Philo's Mosis 1-2, 1 Clement, and The Letter of the Churches of Vienne and Lyons ). He highlights their respective appropriation, adaptation, and redeployment of the Roman moral idiom on exemplary leadership in the promotion of self-consciously non-Roman ancestral exempla and languages of leadership.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004438446

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Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain by Anonim Pdf

Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain gathers a series of studies on the interplay between gender, sanctity and exemplarity in regard to literary production in the Iberian peninsula. The first section examines how women were con¬strued as saintly examples through narratives, mostly composed by male writers; the second focuses on the use made of exemplary life-accounts by women writers in order to fashion their own social identity and their role as authors. The volume includes studies on relevant models (Mary Magdalen, Virgin Mary, living saints), means of transmission, sponsorship and agency (reading circles, print, patronage), and female writers (Leonor López de Córdoba, Isabel de Villena, Teresa of Ávila) involved in creating textual exemplars for women. Contributors are: Pablo Acosta-García, Andrew M. Beresford, Jimena Gamba Corradine, Ryan D. Giles, María Morrás, Lesley K. Twomey, Roa Vidal Doval, and Christopher van Ginhoven Rey.

Author : University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Symposium
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004144156

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Scripture And Pluralism by University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Symposium Pdf

This book is a study of the multiplicity of ways the Bible was used by different groups during the Middle Ages. They explore different aspects of Christian Biblical Study in the face of the challenges of religious pluralism in the medieval and early-modern periods.

Author : Jared Ortiz
Publisher : Studies in Early Christianity
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813231426

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Deification in the Latin Patristic Tradition by Jared Ortiz Pdf

"Contributors to this volume refute the widely held perception that the doctrine of deification primarily belonged in the Eastern Church, and that the Western Church reduced the rich biblical and Greek patristic understanding of salvation to a narrow view of redemption. To the contrary, these essays provide evidence of the wide-ranging use of deification themes in major Latin patristic sources, showing that deification was a native part of early Latin theology that was consitently and creatively employed"--

Author : Ellen Birnbaum,John M. Dillon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004423640

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Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham by Ellen Birnbaum,John M. Dillon Pdf

In this new English translation and commentary of Philo’s On the Life of Abraham Ellen Birnbaum and John Dillon show how and why this unique biography displays Philo’s philosophical, exegetical, and literary genius at its best.

Author : Carson Bay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009268554

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Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity by Carson Bay Pdf

In this volume, Carson Bay focuses on an important but neglected work of Late Antiquity: Pseudo-Hegesippus' On the Destruction of Jerusalem (De Excidio Hierosolymitano), a Latin history of later Second Temple Judaism written during the fourth century CE. Bay explores the presence of so many Old Testament figures in a work that recounts the Roman-Jewish War (66–73 CE) and the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE. By applying the lens of Roman exemplarity to Pseudo-Hegesippus, he elucidates new facets of Biblical reception, history-writing, and anti-Judaism in a text from the formative first century of Christian Empire. The author also offers new insights into the Christian historiographical imagination and how Biblical heroes and Classical culture helped Christians to write anti-Jewish history. Revealing novel aspects of the influence of the Classical literary tradition on early Christian texts, this book also newly questions the age-old distinction between the Christian and the Classical (or 'pagan') in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Author : Richard Howlett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : PSU:000003027103

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Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry II and Richard 1 by Richard Howlett Pdf

Author : Barrow G W S Barrow
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781474464215

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Acts of William I (1165-1214) by Barrow G W S Barrow Pdf

The Acts of William I (1165-1214)

Author : David Edwards
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004549067

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In the Court of the Gentiles: Narrative, Exemplarity, and Scriptural Adaptation in the Court-Tales of Flavius Josephus by David Edwards Pdf

Edwards explores how Josephus in Antiquities adapts the scriptural stories of Joseph and Esther in unexpected ways as models for accounts of more recent Jewish figures. Terming this practice “subversive adaptation,” Edwards contextualizes it within Greco-Roman literary culture and employs the concept of “discourses of exemplarity” to show how Josephus used narratives about past figures to engage Roman elites in moral reflection and pragmatic decision-making. This book supplies analysis of frequently overlooked accounts as well as Josephus’ broader literary strategies, and shows how ancient Jews appropriated imperial historiographical conventions and forms of discourse while countering Greco-Roman claims of cultural superiority.

Author : Adam Ployd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190914141

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Augustine, Martyrdom, and Classical Rhetoric by Adam Ployd Pdf

"This monograph places Augustine's martyr discourse in the context of classical rhetoric in order to flesh out the claim that such discourse is inherently rhetorical. It is argued that Augustine's martyr discourse can be understood as rhetorical in three ways: First, Augustine develops and deploys his understanding of martyrdom within particular rhetorical contexts. This is the weakest and most general sense of "rhetorical" that will appear in this study, falling short of, yet providing the necessary context for, the more technical analyses that make up the heart of the book. Second, Augustine uses techniques of classical rhetorical argumentation to construct his martyrs and to create their theological significance. This claim refers less to techniques of ornamentation or style than it does to those techniques more associated with the category of inventio and to some degree dispositio. Third, in Augustine's depiction, the martyrs themselves are ideal Christian rhetors"--

Author : Michal Beth Dinkler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004461420

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Influence: On Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation by Michal Beth Dinkler Pdf

The Bible is by nature rhetorical. Written to persuade, biblical texts have influenced humans beyond what their authors ever imagined. Influence: On Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation invites readers to think critically about biblical rhetoric and the rhetoric of its interpretation.

Author : Edwin Rabbie
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004477278

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Hugo Grotius, Ordinum Hollandiae ac Westfrisiae pietas (1613) by Edwin Rabbie Pdf

This volume contains Hugo Grotius' first work in the field of Church politics, orginally published in 1613. The book was written to defend the policy of the States of Holland, which was being attacked by the orthodox Calvinistic party in the Netherlands. It was written with an eye to foreign Dutch allies, especially King James I. Grotius' Latin text is here edited critically for the first time and provided with an introduction, an English translation and an extensive commentary. In several appendixes, various texts that are important for the background and the reception of the book are printed, many of them for the first time. Ordinum Pietas is one of the key texts for the knowledge of the religious disputes in the Netherlands during the Twelve Years' Truce (1609-1621).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004693296

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From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

Two millennia ago, the Jewish priest-turned-general Flavius Josephus, captured by the emperor Vespasian in the middle of the Roman-Jewish War (66–70 CE), spent the last decades of his life in Rome writing several historiographical works in Greek. Josephus was eagerly read and used by Christian thinkers, but eventually his writings became the basis for the early-10th century Hebrew text called Sefer Yosippon, reintegrating Josephus into the Jewish tradition. This volume marks the first edited collection to be dedicated to the study of Josephus, Yosippon, and their reception histories. Consisting of critical inquiries into one or both of these texts and their afterlives, the essays in this volume pave the way for future research on the Josephan tradition in Greek, Latin, Hebrew and beyond.

Author : Michal Beth Dinkler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300219913

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Literary Theory and the New Testament by Michal Beth Dinkler Pdf

A comprehensive case for a fresh literary approach to the New Testament For at least a half century, scholars have been adopting literary approaches to the New Testament inspired by certain branches of literary criticism and theory. In this important and illuminating work, Michal Beth Dinkler uses contemporary literary theory to enhance our understanding and interpretation of the New Testament texts. Dinkler provides an integrated approach to the relation between literary theory and biblical interpretation, employing a wide range of practical theories and methods. This indispensable work engages foundational concepts and figures, the historical contexts of various theoretical approaches, and ongoing literary scholarship into the twenty-first century. In Literary Theory and the New Testament, Dinkler assesses previous literary treatments of the New Testament and calls for a new phase of nuanced thinking about New Testament texts as both ancient and literary.

Author : Christy Cobb,Eric Vanden Eykel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793637857

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Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts by Christy Cobb,Eric Vanden Eykel Pdf

Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts examines instances of sexual violence within a diversity of early Christian texts carefully, ethically, and with an eye toward shining a light on the scourge of sexual violence that is so often manifest in both ancient and contemporary Christian communities.