Niehoff / Levinson Self, Self-Fashioning and Individuality in Late Antiquity

New Perspectives
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-16-158991-1
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 567 Seiten, Format (B × H): 232 mm x 155 mm

Reihe: Culture, Religion, and Politics in the Greco-Roman World

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes stellen die vieldiskutierte Frage des nach innen gerichteten Selbst in einen neuen, interdisziplinären Kontext: Sie untersuchen heidnische, jüdische und christliche Stimmen in gleicher Weise und stellen erhebliche Überlappungen zwischen den inneren und den äußeren Dimensionen fest.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Niehoff, Maren R.

Levinson, Joshua

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Rabbinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Spätantike
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Judentum und Weltreligionen, Weltethos

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Maren R. Niehoff: Fashioning this Volume

Constructing the Self
David Lambert: "Desire" Enacted in the Wilderness: Problems in the History of the Self and Bible Translation - Matthew Roller: Selfhood, Exemplarity, and Cicero's Four Personae: On Constructing Your Self after Your Model and Your Model after Your Self - Margaret Graver: Interiority and Freedom in Seneca's De Beneficiis: Acts of Kindness and the Perfected Will - Gretchen Reydams-Schils: How to "Become Like God" and Remain Oneself - Karen King: Becoming Fully Human: Contours and Expressions of the Self according to The Gospel of Mary - Yair Furstenberg: Rabbinic Responses to Greco-Roman Ethics of Self-Formation in Tractate Avot - Charles Stang: The Doubled Self and the Worship of the Gods - Joshua Levinson: The Divided Subject: Representing Modes of Consciousness in Rabbinic Midrash - Laura Nasrallah: The Worshipping Self, the Self in Light - Edward Watts: The Senses, the Self, and the Christian Roman Imperial Subject: Hagia Sophia as a Space of Directed Interiority

Self-Fashioning
Catharine Edwards: The Epistolographic Self: The Role of the Individual in Seneca's Letters - Eve-Marie Becker: Paul's Epistolary Self in and around Philippians - Ilaria Ramelli: Autobiographical Self-Fashioning in Origen - Maren R. Niehoff: A Hybrid Self: Rabbi Abbahu in Legal Debates in Caesarea - Irmgard Männlein-Robert: Move Your Self: Mobility and Migration of Greek Intellectuals to Rome - Reuven Kiperwasser: Narrating the Self: Stories about Rabbi Zeira's Encounters in the Land of Israel

Self and Individual in Society
Clifford Ando: Self, Society, Individual, and Person in Roman Law - Jörg Rüpke: Urban Selves: Individualisation in the Cities of the Roman Empire - Sarit Kattan Gribetz: Constructions of the Self through Time: Gender, Text, Embodiment, Experience - Mira Balberg: The Subject Supposed to Forget: Rabbinic Formations of the Legal Self - Ishay Rosen-Zvi: Two Midrashic Selves: Between Origen and the Mekhilta - Alfons Fürst: Individuality and Self-Agency: The Self in Origen's Metaphysics of Freedom - Tobias Nicklas: Constructing Individual Selves within Social Hierarchies: The Letters of Copres and Synesios

Über Autor(innen)

Niehoff, Maren R.
Geboren 1963; Ausbildung an der Hebräischen Universität Jerusalem, der Freien Universität in Berlin, Oxford University and Harvard University; seit 2014 Max Cooper Professor im Dept. für Jüdische Philosophie, Hebräische Universität Jerusalem.

Levinson, Joshua
is Professor of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.