Ancient Philosophy and Early Christianity

Studies in Honor of Johan C. Thom
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51748-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 188, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 9126 g

Reihe: Novum Testamentum, Supplements

This volume celebrates the scholarship of Professor Johan C. Thom by tackling various important topics relevant for the study of the New Testament, such as the intellectual environment of early Christianity, especially Greek, Latin, and early Jewish texts, New Testament apocrypha and other early Christian writings, as well as Greek grammar. The authors offer fresh insights on philosophical texts and traditions, the cultural repertoire of early Christian literature, critical editions, linguistics and interpretation, and comparative analyses of ancient writings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bosman, Philip R.

Kotzé, Gideon R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Abbreviations

Contributors

1 At the Borders of the New Testament

Introduction to the Volume

Gideon R. Kotzé and Philip R. Bosman

2 Popular or Religious?

An Ongoing Discussion with Johan Thom’s Concept of Philosophy in Early Imperial Times

Rainer Hirsch-Luipold

3 Did Ancient Philosophers Read Philo?

Philo of Alexandria and Plotinus

Gregory E. Sterling

4 Popular Philosophy and the Placita of Aëtius

David T. Runia

5 Cynics in the Crosshairs

The loci classici for the Anonymous Cynics of the Early Roman Empire

Philip R. Bosman

6 The Oracular Theme in Plato’s Apology of Socrates

Clive Chandler

7 Transatlantic Utopias

Plato’s Republic and the Guarani Missions in South America

Gabriele Cornelli

8 La lecture néoplatonicienne de la biographie de Pythagore par Jamblique

Quatre exemples tirés de son traité Sur le mode de vie pythagoricien

Constantinos Macris

9 John Chrysostom on Pythagoreanism

Chris L. de Wet

10 When Horses Weep

Animal Emotions and Human Suffering in the Aeneid

Annemarie de Villiers

11 Taxation in the Early Greek World and the Ethics of Tax Compliance and Evasion in Early Greek Moral Thought

John T. Fitzgerald

12 Did All First-Century Roads Lead to Rome?

The Politics of Biblical (nt) Travels

Jeremy Punt

13 Dionysius of Halicarnassus’s Roman Antiquities as a Comparative Text for Luke–Acts

Carl R. Holladay

14 Writing the Sublime in a Destitute Time

L.L. Welborn

15 Crucifying Desires—Desires Crucified

On the Meaning of Two Crucifixion Metaphors (Seneca De vita beata 19.3; Gal 5:24)

David du Toit

16 Which Seneca, Which Paul?

The Pseudepigraphic Correspondence

Gretchen Reydams-Schils

17 Miracles of the Young Jesus

David Konstan

18 Acts of Timothy

The Latin Tradition

Clare K. Rothschild

19 Imperative Aspect in the Gospel according to Mark

Performative Instruction through Direct Speech

Cilliers Breytenbach

20 Johan Thom’s Contribution to Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Judaism

Gideon R. Kotzé

Index of Authors

Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Gideon R. Kotzé, DTh (2011), Stellenbosch University, is research professor in the Focus Area Ancient Texts at the Faculty of Theology, North-West University. His most recent monograph is Images and Ideas of Debated Readings in the Book of Lamentations (Mohr Siebeck, 2020).

Philip R. Bosman, PhD (1996), University of Pretoria, is Professor of Classics in the Department of Ancient Studies, Stellenbosch University. His main interests are in Greek literature and philosophy, with recent articles on Plutarch’s Alexander, Julian on leadership, courts at Persepolis and the philosophical Heracles.

Contributors are Philip Bosman, Cilliers Breytenbach, Clive Chandler, Gabriele Cornelli, Annemarie de Villiers, Chris L. de Wet, David du Toit, John T. Fitzgerald, Rainer Hirsch-Luipold, Carl R. Holladay, David Konstan, Gideon R. Kotzé, Constantinos Macris, Jeremy Punt, Gretchen Reydams-Schils, Clare K. Rothschild, David Runia, Gregory E. Sterling, L. L. Welborn.