Paul As Homo Novus

Author : Eve-Marie Becker,Jacob Mortensen
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647540481

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Paul as homo novus by Eve-Marie Becker,Jacob Mortensen Pdf

20ths century research in St. Paul is widely impacted by Adolf Deissmann's prominent view on the apostle as a "homo novus" (1911). But where does this concept originate from, and what does it imply? This collection of articles does not only re-evaluate Deissmann's concept by tracing it back to its historical and socio-political origins in Cicero and exploring how authors from (early) Imperial Time perceive and transform the homo novus paradigm by diverse modes and strategies of literary self-fashioning. Scholars ranging the fields of New Testament Studies, Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Patristics, and Comparative Literature also examine how the Ciceronian paradigm was early on transformed, disseminated, and applied as a literary concept and an authorial topos of self-molding. One of the leading questions throughout the volume thus is: How do authors like Cicero, Horace, Paul, Tacitus, Seneca, Athanasius, and Augustine fashion themselves in accordance to or in difference from the idea of being a "new man"? It is argued that by means of literary self-configuration, indeed, some of these writers – such as Paul and Augustine – want to appear as "new men" by either altering traditional social, moral, religious, or political roles, or by creating new patterns of social behavior and religious self-understanding.

Author : Ryan S. Schellenberg,Heidi Wendt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567691972

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T&T Clark Handbook to the Historical Paul by Ryan S. Schellenberg,Heidi Wendt Pdf

The T&T Clark Handbook to the Historical Paul gathers leading voices on various aspects of Paul's biography into a thorough reconsideration of him as a historical figure. The contributors show how recent trends in Pauline scholarship have invited new questions about a variety of topics, including his social location, his mode of subsistence, his cultural formation, his place within Judaism, his religious experience and practice, and his affinities with other religious actors of the Roman world. Through careful attention to biographical detail, social context, and historical method, it seeks to describe him as a contextually plausible social actor. The volume is structured in three parts. Part One introduces sources, methods, and historiographical approaches, surveying the foundational texts for Paul and the early Pauline tradition. Part Two examines key biographical questions pertaining to Paul's bodily comportment, the material aspects of his career, and his religious activities. Part Three reconstructs the biographical portraits of Paul that emerge from the letters associated with him, presenting a series of “micro-biographies” pieced together by leading Pauline scholars.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004680821

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Paul, Christian Textuality, and the Hermeneutics of Late Antiquity by Anonim Pdf

The essays in the present volume celebrate the work of Margaret M. Mitchell (University of Chicago) by engaging, extending, and challenging her ground-breaking research in three areas: (1) the letters of Paul the Apostle, both authentic and pseudepigraphic; (2) the emergence and rapid development of early Christian literary culture over the first few centuries of the cult’s existence; and (3) Late Antique interpretive practices and perspectives, particularly among patristic readers of the scriptures.

Author : Oda Wischmeyer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567630919

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Paul by Oda Wischmeyer Pdf

Author : Valentino Gasparini,Maik Patzelt,Rubina Raja,Anna-Katharina Rieger,Jörg Rüpke,Emiliano Urciuoli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110557947

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Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World by Valentino Gasparini,Maik Patzelt,Rubina Raja,Anna-Katharina Rieger,Jörg Rüpke,Emiliano Urciuoli Pdf

The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new perspectives and new questions. The religious transformations of the Roman Imperial period appear in new light and more nuances by comparative confrontation and the integration of many disciplines. The contributions are written by specialists from a variety of disciplinary contexts (Jewish Studies, Theology, Classics, Early Christian Studies) dealing with the history of religion of the Mediterranean, West-Asian, and European area from the (late) Hellenistic period to the (early) Middle Ages and shaped by their intensive exchange. From the point of view of their respective fields of research, the contributors engage with discourses on agency, embodiment, appropriation and experience. They present innovative research in four fields also of theoretical debate, which are “Experiencing the Religious”, “Switching the Code”, „A Thing Called Body“ and “Commemorating the Moment”.

Author : Matthew Dillon,Lynda Garland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136761362

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Ancient Rome by Matthew Dillon,Lynda Garland Pdf

A companion volume to the highly successful and widely used Ancient Greece, this Sourcebook is a valuable resource for students at all levels studying ancient Rome. Lynda Garland and Matthew Dillon present an extensive range of material, from the early Republic to the assassination of Julius Caesar. Providing a comprehensive coverage of all important documents pertaining to the Roman Republic, Ancient Rome includes: source material on political developments in the Roman Republic (509–44 BC) detailed chapters on social phenomena, such as Roman religion, slavery and freedmen, women and the family, and the public face of Rome clear, precise translations of documents taken not only from historical sources, but also from inscriptions, laws and decrees, epitaphs, graffiti, public speeches, poetry, private letters and drama concise up-to-date bibliographies and commentaries for each document and chapter a definitive collection of source material on the Roman Republic. All students of ancient Rome and classical studies will find this textbook invaluable at all levels of study.

Author : Adolf Deissmann
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1330160479

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St. Paul by Adolf Deissmann Pdf

Excerpt from St. Paul: A Study in Social and Religious History An Anatolian St. Paul, a man of the ancients, a homo novus, rising from the mass of the insignificant many, heeded by no man of letters among his pagan contemporaries, yet destined to be a leading personality in the world's history; a homo religiosus, at once a classic of mysticism and a most practical man of affairs; a prophet and dreamer, crucified to the world of Christ, yet for ever memorable as a citizen of the world at the present moment - such is the man whose outlines I have been seeking to portray. After long years devoted to the study of the ancient records of St. Paul and their modern interpreters it was my rare good fortune to find a new teacher to supplement those to whom I shall always look up with gratitude, the old teachers at home. This new teacher is in no sense academic: paper and paragraphs are unknown to her; all that she teaches she dispense with generous hand in the bright sunshine and open air - she is in fact the world of the South and East, the world of St. Paul. If the western stranger approach the mistress by reverently beneath the olive-trees, she will gladly, and with a mother's joy, speak to him of her great son. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Ole Jakob Filtvedt,Jens Schröter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783111084022

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Know Yourself by Ole Jakob Filtvedt,Jens Schröter Pdf

The book explores ancient interpretations and usages of the famous Delphic maxim “know yourself”. The primary emphasis is on Jewish, Christian and Greco-Roman sources from the first four centuries CE. The individual contributions examine both direct quotations of the maxim as well as more distant echoes. Most of the sources included in the book have never previously been studied in any detail with a view to their use and interpretation of the Delphic maxim. Thus, the book contributes significantly to the origin and different interpretations of the maxim in antiquity as well as to its reception history in ancient philosophical and theological discourses. The chapters of the book are linked to each other by numerous cross-references which makes it possible to compare the different views of the maxim with each other. It also helps readers to notice relationships and trajectories within the material. The explorations of the relevant sources are also set in the context of ongoing debates about the shape and nature of ancient conceptions of self and self-knowledge. The book thus demonstrates the wide variety of philosophical and theological approaches in that the injunction to know oneself could be viewed and how these interpretations provide windows into ancient discourses about self and self-knowledge.

Author : Ben Witherington III
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830826602

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The Paul Quest by Ben Witherington III Pdf

Ben Witherington III examines the various profiles of the historical Paul that have been newly discovered, revealing how a reacquaintance with the classical Roman world has filled in even more details of Paul's life and work.

Author : Francesca Romana Berno,Giuseppe La Bua
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110748888

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Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics by Francesca Romana Berno,Giuseppe La Bua Pdf

Cicero has played a pivotal role in shaping Western culture. His public persona, his self-portrait as model of Roman prose, philosopher, and statesman, has exerted a durable and profound impact on the educational system and the formation of the ruling class over the centuries. Joining up with recent studies on the reception of Cicero, this volume approaches the figure of Cicero from a ‘biographical’, more than ‘philological’, perspective and considers the multiple ways by which different ages reacted to Cicero and created their ‘Ciceros’. From Cicero’s lifetime to our times, it focuses on how the image of Cicero was revisited and reworked by intellectuals and men of culture, who eulogized his outstanding oratorical and political virtues but, not rarely, questioned the role he had in Roman politics and society. An international group of scholars elaborates on the figure of Cicero, shedding fresh light on his reception in late antiquity, Humanism and Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern centuries. Historians, literary scholars and philosophers, as well as graduate students, will certainly profit from this volume, which contributes enormously to our understanding of the influence of Cicero on Western culture over the times.

Author : Alexander Nowell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597522083

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A Catechism Written in Latin by Alexander Nowell, Dean of St. Paul's by Alexander Nowell Pdf

The Parker Society was the London-based Anglican society that printed in fifty-four volumes the works of the leading English Reformers of the sixteenth century. It was formed in 1840 and disbanded in 1855 when its work was completed. Named after Matthew Parker -- the first Elizabethan Archbishop of Canterbury, who was known as a great collector of books -- the stimulus for the foundation of the society was provided by the Tractarian movement, led by John Henry Newman and Edward B. Pusey. Some members of this movement spoke disparagingly of the English Reformation, and so some members of the Church of England felt the need to make available in an attractive form the works of the leaders of that Reformation.

Author : Christoph Pieper,Dennis Pausch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004516441

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The Scholia on Cicero's Speeches by Christoph Pieper,Dennis Pausch Pdf

This volume, the first one dedicated to the ancient scholia to Cicero's speeches, analyzes them from different angles and positions them in the broader context of late antique commentaries and learning.

Author : Ronald S. Calinger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691196404

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Leonhard Euler by Ronald S. Calinger Pdf

"This is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707-83), one of the greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists of all time. In this comprehensive and authoritative account, Ronald Calinger connects the story of Euler's eventful life to the astonishing achievements that place him in the company of Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss. Drawing chiefly on Euler's massive published works and correspondence, which fill more than eighty volumes so far, this biography sets Euler's work in its multilayered context--personal, intellectual, institutional, political, cultural, religious, and social. It is a story of nearly incessant accomplishment, from Euler's fundamental contributions to almost every area of pure and applied mathematics--especially calculus, number theory, notation, optics, and celestial, rational, and fluid mechanics--to his advancements in shipbuilding, telescopes, ballistics, cartography, chronology, and music theory. The narrative takes the reader from Euler's childhood and education in Basel through his first period in St. Petersburg, 1727-41, where he gained a European reputation by solving the Basel problem and systematically developing analytical mechanics. Invited to Berlin by Frederick II, Euler published his famous Introductio in analysin infinitorum, devised continuum mechanics, and proposed a pulse theory of light. Returning to St. Petersburg in 1766, he created the analytical calculus of variations, developed the most precise lunar theory of the time that supported Newton's dynamics, and published the best-selling Letters to a German Princess--all despite eye problems that ended in near-total blindness. In telling the remarkable story of Euler and how his achievements brought pan-European distinction to the Petersburg and Berlin academies of sciences, the book also demonstrates with new depth and detail the central role of mathematics in the Enlightenment."--Publisher's description.

Author : John Colet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Bible
ISBN : CHI:12646287

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... Enarratio in Epistolam S. Pauli Ad Romanos by John Colet Pdf

Author : John Colet
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368181543

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An Exposition of st Paul's Epistle to the Romans by John Colet Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.