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Author:   Philip R. Bosman ,  Gideon R. Kotzé
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   188
Weight:   0.913kg
ISBN:  

9789004517486

ISBN 10:   9004517480
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   08 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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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

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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.

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