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Author : Richard Alan Edwards,Robert A. Wild,Pope Sixtus II
Publisher : Society of Biblical Literature
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0891305289
Author : Henry Chadwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521541085
A collection of ethical aphorisms for centuries by Christians from Britain to Mesopotamia.
Author : Walter T. Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1589837274
Author : Daniele Pevarello
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161525795
Daniele Pevarello analyzes the Sentences of Sextus, a second century collection of Greek aphorisms compiled by Sextus, an otherwise unknown Christian author. The specific character of Sextus' collection lies in the fact that the Sentences are a Christian rewriting of Hellenistic sayings, some of which are still preserved in pagan gnomologies and in Porphyry. Pevarello investigates the problem of continuity and discontinuity between the ascetic tendencies of the Christian compiler and aphorisms promoting self-control in his pagan sources. In particular, he shows how some aspects of the Stoic, Cynic, Platonic and Pythagorean moral traditions, such as sexual restraint, voluntary poverty, the practice of silence and of a secluded life were creatively combined with Sextus' ascetic agenda against the background of the biblical tradition. Drawing on this adoption of Hellenistic moral traditions, Pevarello shows how great a part the moral tradition of Greek paideia played in the shaping and development of self-restraint among early Christian ascetics.
Author : Sextus (Pythagoreus)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1071753321
Author : Sextus (Pythagoreus.),Henry Chadwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:630254606
Author : Walter T. Wilson
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589837201
Described by Origen as a writing that “even the masses of believers have read,” the Sentences of Sextus offers unique insights into popular Christian thought during the late second century C.E. Although it draws extensively on canonical texts for the composition of its sayings, it is especially fascinating for the manner in which it integrates these texts with material derived from two generically similar collections of Pythagorean maxims. This volume provides a critical edition including evidence from the Greek, Latin, Syriac, and Coptic versions; a new translation; and the first commentary for the Sentences, an important document for investigating the history of early Christian wisdom, asceticism, and ethics.
Author : Sextus (Pythagoreus.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:312450273
Author : Martha Turner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004439672
Study of the Gospel according to Philip, an important gnostic Christian text, has been hampered by unresolved questions about the unity, genre, and sectarian contexts of the work. This book argues that terms of self-designation, use of controversial vocabulary, style, hermeneutic strategies, and theological commitments together present persuasive evidence of derivation from multiple sectarian milieux. The document's organizing principles are found to be in accord with the excerpting and collection practices of Late Antiquity. The coherence of the text lies in its compiler's distinctive interests and choices, not in the uniformity of its materials. The persuasive case made by this book will help to advance research on this significant document of early Christianity.
Author : Alan Kirk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004267374
This volume analyzes the "Q materials" in the light of compositional conventions of ancient instructional genres. The author begins by assessing literary-critical approaches to Q which began with Harnack and have culminated in the work of Kloppenborg, Sato, and others. Next he articulates a theory of genre analysis drawn from text-linguistics, literary criticism, and rhetorical criticism. An array of ancient paraenetic texts is used to generate genre-critical models, in turn applied comprehensively to the double tradition materials. The results are used to critically assess recent redaction-history theories of Q's formation and to locate Q more securely among ancient paraenetic genres. The book will be of interest to synoptic gospels scholarship, historians of Christian origins, literary critics, and those investigating the production, social function, and performance of texts in early Christianity.
Author : Roelof van den Broek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004439689
The discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library (1945) has given an enormous impetus not only to the study of ancient Gnosticism but also to that of early Christianity in general. Most of the studies contained in this volume deal with mythological conceptions and theological ideas found in various Nag Hammadi writings. The gnostic views on the nature of God and on creation and salvation receive particular attention, ranging from Philo to the medieval Cathars. The Nag Hammadi Library also shed new light on the development of early Alexandrian Christianity and its theology. The book contains six studies which explicitly deal with these topics. This volume is of interest to students of Gnosticism, early Christianity and Graeco-Roman religious and philosophical ideas in general.
Author : Anders Klostergaard Petersen,George H. van Kooten
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004323131
This first volume of the new Brill series “Ancient Philosophy & Religion” offers analyses of Platonic philosophy and piety, the emergence of a common religio-philosophical discourse in Antiquity, the place of Jesus among ancient philosophers, and responses of pagan philosophers to Christianity from the second century to Late Antiquity.
Author : Charles W. Hedrick
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004438958
This volume presents critical editions of three of the most fragmentary codices in the Nag Hammadi Library. Their nine tractates are presented in an English translation with critically edited transcriptions of Coptic texts, including introductions and notes. A complete set of indices is provided for Coptic and Greek words, proper names, ancient texts and authors, and modern authors. The contents of these three ancient books reflect the rich diversity of the Library as a whole. They include a fragmentary (and apparently non-Christian) revelation descent narrative (Hypsiphrone); a non-Christian Sethian text reflecting heavy platonizing influence (Allogenes); Hellenistic Greek wisdom literature (Sentence of Sextus); a non-christian Sethian text, secondarily Christianized (Trimorphic Protennoia); Valentinian Gnosticism (A Valentinian Exposition); a Christian-Gnostic tractate with Valentinian affinities (The Interpretation of Knowledge). A Christian-Gnostic (perhaps Valentinian) homily on the gospel (the Gospel of Truth); the first page of On the Origin of the World (completely preserved in NHC II) and an identified fragmentary tractate with ethical content. There are also five Valentinian liturgical supplements appended to Allogenes. The publication of these religio-philosophical materials from Nag Hammadi provides the scholar and interested reader with critical editions of texts that help to fill in background and context of gnostic origins, and that shed light on the interaction among early Christianity and gnostic movements in antiquity.
Author : Jennifer Otto
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198820727
Philo of Alexandria and the Construction of Jewishness in Early Christian Writings investigates portrayals of the first-century philosopher and exegete Philo of Alexandria, in the writings of Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Eusebius. It argues that early Christian invocations of Philo are best understood not as attempts simply to claim an illustrious Jew for the Christian fold, but as examples of ongoing efforts to define the continuities and distinctive features of Christian beliefs and practices in relation to those of the Jews. This study takes as its starting point the curious fact that none of the first three Christians to mention Philo refer to him unambiguously as a Jew. Clement, the first in the Christian tradition to openly cite Philo's works, refers to him twice as a Pythagorean. Origen, who mentions Philo by name only three times, makes far more frequent reference to him in the guise of an anonymous "one who came before us." Eusebius, who invokes Philo on many more occasions than does Clement or Origen, most often refers to Philo as a Hebrew. These epithets construct Philo as an alternative "near-other" to both Christians and Jews, through whom ideas and practices may be imported to the former from the latter, all the while establishing boundaries between the "Christian" and "Jewish" ways of life. The portraits of Philo offered by each author reveal ongoing processes of difference-making and difference-effacing that constituted not only the construction of the Jewish "other," but also the Christian "self."
Author : James McConkey Robinson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9004117024
"The Gnostic Library" continues where the Dead Sea Scrolls left off. It is based on the Nag Hammadi codices, which were unearthed in 1945 -- a discovery considered as significant as the Dead Sea Scrolls themselves. The "Coptic Gnostic Library" contains all the texts of the Nag Hammadi codices, both in the original Coptic and in translation. It sheds an invaluable light upon early Judaism and the roots of Christianity. Now available in paperback.