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Author:   Philip L. Tite
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   67
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.806kg
ISBN:  

9789004175075

ISBN 10:   9004175075
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   31 August 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2 Constructing Social Identity Through Discourse: A Socio-Rhetorical Approach for the Study of Valentinian Paraenesis 3. Defining Paraenesis I: Historical Phases within the Academic Study of Paraenesis 4. Defining Paraenesis II: Towards a Functional Understanding of Paraenesis 5. Literary Aspects of Paraenesis: Indicators of Moral Exhortation from the Greco-Roman World within Valentinianism 6. Two Schools and the Call to Reconciliation: Literary and Social Aspects of Moral Exhortation in the Interpretation of Knowledge 7. Existing in Error: Literary and Social Aspects of Moral Exhortation in the Gospel of Truth 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Tite's book rightly underscores the importance of ethics in Valentinian Christianity - Birger A. Pearson, in: Religious Studies Review 26/1 (March 2010) This monograph makes an important contribution to the scholarly understanding of moral exhortation in Valentinian teaching. - Paul Foster, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh

'Tite's book rightly underscores the importance of ethics in Valentinian Christianity' Birger A. Pearson, Religious Studies Review 26.1 MARCH 2010 This monograph makes an important contribution to the scholarly understanding of moral exhortation in Valentinian teaching. Paul Foster, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh

Tite's book rightly underscores the importance of ethics in Valentinian Christianity - Birger A. Pearson, in: Religious Studies Review 26/1 (March 2010) This monograph makes an important contribution to the scholarly understanding of moral exhortation in Valentinian teaching. - Paul Foster, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh

Author Information

Philip L. Tite, Ph.D. (2005) in Religious Studies, McGill University, is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Willamette University, Salem Oregon. He is the author of Compositional Transitions in 1 Peter (International Scholars, 1997), Conceiving Peace and Violence (UPA, 2004), and co-editor of Religion, Terror and Violence (Routledge, 2008). His research and teaching center on the social and rhetorical aspects of early Christianity and Gnosticism.

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