scholarly journals Between Hipparchian Cynicism and Priscillian Montanism: Some Notes on Tatian, or. 3.6

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-107
Author(s):  
Josef Lössl
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Women Prophets

Abstract Tatian’s Oration to the Greeks (or.) contains a list of twelve ancient Greek philosophers whom Tatian berates for their arrogant stupidity (or. 2.1-3.7). In this list can be found a brief note (or. 3.6) in which Tatian singles out the Cynic Crates of Thebes (ca. 368/5-ca. 288/5 BC) and asks who would want to be a witness at his “dog-marriage” (κυνογαµία) or not reject the arrogant “tongue-madness” (γλωσσοµανία) “of people like him” rather than “seeking that which is truly worth pursuing.” This paper aims at contributing to an improved understanding of this sentence and in particular of the two words, κυνογαµία and γλωσσοµανία. For this purpose it looks 1) at Crates’ background, in particular his marriage with Hipparchia of Maroneia, and 2) at the wider context in which Tatian is writing, in particular the phenomenon of early Christian ecstatic prophecy personified by the leading Montanist women prophets Priscilla and Maximilla.

Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Private Associations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Greek World

Private associations abounded in the ancient Greek world and beyond, and this volume provides the first large-scale study of the strategies of governance which they employed. Emphasis is placed on the values fostered by the regulations of associations, the complexities of the private-public divide (and that divide's impact on polis institutions) and the dynamics of regional and global networks and group identity. The attested links between rules and religious sanctions also illuminate the relationship between legal history and religion. Moreover, possible links between ancient associations and the early Christian churches will prove particularly valuable for scholars of the New Testament. The book concludes by using the regulations of associations to explore a novel and revealing aspect of the interaction between the Mediterranean world, India and China.

EARLY CHRISTIAN REPRESENTATIONS OF MAN BETWEEN THE BIBLE AND GREEK PHILOSOPHY – THE FEATURES OF THE RELATIONSHIP

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-111
Author(s):  
A. V. Laputko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
World View ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Ancient Greek Philosophy ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Final Design

The article examines the preconditions for the formation of Christian ideas about man. The emphasis is on the fact that the doctrine of a person has never been a separate problem of theology, and, consequently, was formed in parallel and within the basic tenets of Christianity. The author focuses attention on the contradiction in understanding the origin of representations of a person between the traditional branches of Christianity. On the whole, while remaining in common positions, each denomination identifies its own fundamental source of the origin of anthropological ideas, not taking into account the complex and contradictory path of interpenetration of the ideas of ancient Greek philosophy and Christianity. The author shows the path of formation of the main anthropological representations from the Old Testament notions to the New Testament, which receive their final design only in the works of apologists of Christianity brought up by the logic and culture of thinking of ancient philosophy. Thus, the birth of a new world-view anthropological paradigm, which remains one of the most popular and discursive in the modern world, takes place within the framework of a dialogue between ancient Greek philosophical thought and Old Testament ideas.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Grethlein ◽  
Luuk Huitink ◽  
Aldo Tagliabue
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Rhetorical Theory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Individual

This volume aims to pursue a new approach to ancient Greek narrative beyond the taxonomies of structuralist narratologies, focusing on the phenomenal and experiential dimension of our response to narrative and triangulating ancient narrative with ancient criticism and cognitive approaches. The introductory chapter offers an overview of the theoretical frameworks in play and briefly encapsulates how each chapter seeks to contribute to a multifaceted picture of narrative and aesthetic experience. Immersion and embodiment emerge as central concepts and common threads throughout, helping to establish a more comprehensive understanding of ancient narrative and ancient reading habits, as manifested in Greek criticism and rhetorical theory, though the individual chapters tackle a wide range of narrative genres, broadly understood, from epic, historiography, and the novel to tragedy and early Christian texts, and other media, such as dance and sculpture.

scholarly journals Spotkanie starożytnego chrześcijaństwa z filozofią grecką (w czasach Justyna Męczennika i Klemensa Aleksandryjskiego)

2016 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-84
Author(s):  
Kazimierz Pawłowski
Keyword(s):  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Spiritual Culture ◽  
Ancient Greek Philosophy ◽  
Religious Systems ◽  
The One ◽  
Existential Problem

For followers of religions which take solid cultural form of coherent doctrinalsystems, the fact that other comparable religious systems exist may posea difficult theoretical and existential problem that needs to be addressed ata number of levels, including the one of human existential experience. This isthe problem that was faced by the original followers of the Christian religionin relation to the Greek spiritual culture, and ancient Greek philosophy inparticular, at the time when it boldly explored spiritual areas closely connectedto Christianity. The problem became particularly significant in the secondcentury CE. It was tackled by early Christian thinkers that were educated inGreek philosophy themselves and used its ideas to solve the above-mentionedproblem.

scholarly journals Mythic gaps

Nordlit ◽  
2014 ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
William Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Literature ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
Christian Literature ◽  
Ancient Greek Literature

Different kinds of omissions sometimes occur, or are perceived to occur, in traditional narratives and in tradition-inspired literature. A familiar instance is when a narrator realizes that he or she does not fully remember the story that he or she has begun to tell, and so leaves out part of it, which for listeners may possibly result in an unintelligible narrative. But many instances of narrative gap are not so obvious. From straightforward, objective gaps one can distinguish less-obvious subjective gaps: in many cases narrators do not leave out anything crucial or truly relevant from their exposition, and yet readers perceive gaps and take steps to fill them. The present paper considers four examples of subjective gaps drawn from ancient Greek literature (the Pandora myth), ancient Roman literature (the Pygmalion legend), ancient Hebrew literature (the Joseph legend), and early Christian literature (the Jesus legend). I consider the quite varied ways in which interpreters expand the inherited texts of these stories, such as by devising names, manufacturing motives, creating backstories, and in general filling in biographical ellipses. Finally, I suggest an explanation for the phenomenon of subjective gaps, arguing that, despite their variety, they have a single cause.

Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Rhetorical Theory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Cognitive Studies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Linguistics

This volume, which brings together thirteen essays written by international specialists in the language, literature, and culture of ancient Greece, pursues a new approach to ancient Greek narrative beyond the taxonomies of structuralist narratologies. Focusing on the phenomenal and experiential dimension of our response to narrative, it triangulates ancient narrative with ancient criticism and cognitive approaches. Concepts such as immersion and embodiment help to establish a more comprehensive understanding of ancient narrative and ancient reading habits, as manifested in Greek criticism and rhetorical theory. At the same time, the rich ancient material opens up a historical perspective for cognitive studies. The individual chapters tackle a wide range of narrative genres, broadly understood, besides epic, historiography, and the novel, also tragedy and early Christian texts, while also considering such media as dance and sculpture. They do so with the help of a rich set of theoretical and methodological tools, taken from cognitive studies, phenomenology, and linguistics.

scholarly journals The Odd Future Participle at Pol. Phil. XIII: Reassessing the Authenticity and Unity of Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Otto Linderborg ◽  
Viktor Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Linguistic Evidence ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Future ◽  
Apostolic Fathers

Abstract The Letter to the Philippians is the sole surviving work of the early Christian bishop and martyr, Polycarp of Smyrna. Ever since the 17th century scholars have contested the authenticity and unity of the letter without reaching a settlement. However, new linguistic evidence allows for a reassessment of the controversy. The future participle πρεσβεύσοντα at Pol. Phil. XIII.1 is one of a mere four occurrences of FPs in the entire corpus of the Apostolic Fathers, and the use of the FP is exceedingly rare among low-register Judeo-Christian texts in general. The statistical analysis over a wide range of Ancient Greek literary texts conducted in this paper lends support to the conclusion that Pol. Phil. is a uniform text with a spurious interpolation in the form of the bulk of chapter XIII.

scholarly journals St. Athanasius of Alexandria. About the temple in Athens

2015 ◽  
pp. 380-392
Author(s):  
Феодор Юлаев ◽  
А. Г. Пернбаум
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Christian Literature ◽  
The Temple

Публикуется перевод апологетического сочинения «О храме в Афинах», которое входит в корпус псевдоэпиграфических сочинений свт. Афанасия Александрийского и включает в себя пророчества древнегреческих мудрецов о Христе. Текст перевода предваряется предисловием, в котором дается краткий обзор параллелей этого сочинения с другими памятниками христианской древности. Использование пророчеств, содержащихся в этом памятнике, рассматривается в контексте бытования пророчеств в ранней христианской литературе. В примечаниях к переводу также отмечаются разночтения по различным рукописям этого памятника и его параллельным изданиям. This is a publication of the translation of an apologetic work called “On the temple in Athens”, which is part of the body pseudepigraphical works by st. Athanasius of Alexandria and includes Ancient Greek sages’ prophecies about Christ. The translation is preceded by a preface, which provides a brief overview of this work parallels with other works of Christian antiquity. Using the prophecies contained in this work, we considered the context of the existence of the tradition of prophecy in early Christian literature. The notes to the translation also note discrepancies in various manuscripts of this work and its parallel editions.

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