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Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity : Transmission and Transformation of Ideas / ed. by Radka Fialová, Jiří Hoblík, Petr Kitzler.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte ; 155Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (VII, 243 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110795073
  • 9783110796407
  • 9783110796285
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8924 23/eng/20221115
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  • DS112
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I Hellenism, Judaism, and Christianity: Theological and Philosophical Trajectories -- God’s Power and Powers in Philo of Alexandria -- The Presence of the Myth in the Pentateuch: A Platonic Argument in Philo of Alexandria -- Greek Heritage Reinterpreted by Jews and Christians -- Resurrection in the Intertext: Pagan Sources in Paul’s Areopagus Speech (Acts 17:22–31) -- The Notion of Divine Infinity and Unknowability: Philo, Clement, and Origen of Alexandria in a Polemic with Greek Philosophy -- Origen’s Philosophical Theology, Allegoresis, and Connections to Platonism -- An Arithmological Metaphor for the Holy Trinity in Gregory of Nazianzus (Or. 29.2; 23.8) and Its Neopythagorean Background -- II Hellenism and Judaism: Trajectories in Literature and (Material) Culture -- Rewriting the Genesis Sequence. The Account of the Titanomachy in the Third Book of the Sibylline Oracles Reconsidered -- Famous Forgiveness: The Reception of the Prayer of Manasseh in Byzantium (with a Transcription of Hesychios of Jerusalem’s Scholia from MS Oxford, Auct. D.4.1) -- The Elephant Mosaic Panel in the Huqoq Synagogue: A Reappraisal of the Maccabean Interpretation -- ‘Seal of Solomon’ on a Bilingual defixio from Carnuntum (Pannonia) -- On the Authors -- Index Locorum -- Index of Names and Subjects
Summary: Papers collected in this volume try to illuminate various aspects of philosophical theology dealt with by different Jewish and early Christian authors and texts (e.g. the Acts of the Apostles, Philo, Origen, Gregory of Nazianzus), rooted in and influenced by the Hellenistic religious, cultural, and philosophical context, and they also focus on the literary and cultural traditions of Hellenized Judaism and its reception (e.g. Sibylline Oracles, Prayer of Manasseh), including material culture ("Elephant Mosaic Panel" from Huqoq synagogue). By studying the Hellenistic influences on early Christianity, both in response to and in reaction against early Hellenized Judaism, the volume intends not only to better understand Christianity, as a religious and historical phenomenon with a profound impact on the development of European civilization, but also to better comprehend Hellenism and its consequences which have often been relegated to the realm of political history.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I Hellenism, Judaism, and Christianity: Theological and Philosophical Trajectories -- God’s Power and Powers in Philo of Alexandria -- The Presence of the Myth in the Pentateuch: A Platonic Argument in Philo of Alexandria -- Greek Heritage Reinterpreted by Jews and Christians -- Resurrection in the Intertext: Pagan Sources in Paul’s Areopagus Speech (Acts 17:22–31) -- The Notion of Divine Infinity and Unknowability: Philo, Clement, and Origen of Alexandria in a Polemic with Greek Philosophy -- Origen’s Philosophical Theology, Allegoresis, and Connections to Platonism -- An Arithmological Metaphor for the Holy Trinity in Gregory of Nazianzus (Or. 29.2; 23.8) and Its Neopythagorean Background -- II Hellenism and Judaism: Trajectories in Literature and (Material) Culture -- Rewriting the Genesis Sequence. The Account of the Titanomachy in the Third Book of the Sibylline Oracles Reconsidered -- Famous Forgiveness: The Reception of the Prayer of Manasseh in Byzantium (with a Transcription of Hesychios of Jerusalem’s Scholia from MS Oxford, Auct. D.4.1) -- The Elephant Mosaic Panel in the Huqoq Synagogue: A Reappraisal of the Maccabean Interpretation -- ‘Seal of Solomon’ on a Bilingual defixio from Carnuntum (Pannonia) -- On the Authors -- Index Locorum -- Index of Names and Subjects

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Papers collected in this volume try to illuminate various aspects of philosophical theology dealt with by different Jewish and early Christian authors and texts (e.g. the Acts of the Apostles, Philo, Origen, Gregory of Nazianzus), rooted in and influenced by the Hellenistic religious, cultural, and philosophical context, and they also focus on the literary and cultural traditions of Hellenized Judaism and its reception (e.g. Sibylline Oracles, Prayer of Manasseh), including material culture ("Elephant Mosaic Panel" from Huqoq synagogue). By studying the Hellenistic influences on early Christianity, both in response to and in reaction against early Hellenized Judaism, the volume intends not only to better understand Christianity, as a religious and historical phenomenon with a profound impact on the development of European civilization, but also to better comprehend Hellenism and its consequences which have often been relegated to the realm of political history.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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