Der Vergleich des Lebens mit einem Gastmahl als Verhaltensanweisung: Lk 14,7–11 und 22,26–27 im Lichte von Texten Epiktets und Dions von Prusa

2016 ◽  
Vol 107 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-231
Author(s):  
Matthias Becker
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of Luke ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Narrative Art ◽  
Willingness To Serve ◽  
Dio Chrysostom ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
The One

Abstract: Similes comparing life to a banquet or symposium can be found in different genres of ancient Greco-Roman literature. On the one hand, the imagery of leaving a symposium was used to euphemistically describe suicide or death. On the other hand, the notion of man being a guest on earth hosted by the gods aided philosophers like Epictetus and orators like Dio Chrysostom in illustrating ethical and philosophical advice. In this article, it is argued that in two passages of the Gospel of Luke (14,7–11; 22,26–27) previously unnoticed analogies can be found that are reminiscent of these ancient similes. Like Epictetus and Dio, Luke uses sympotic and banquet imagery to illustrate a certain ideal behaviour, in particular the humble conduct of Christians and their willingness to serve other believers. In addition to revealing a previously unnoticed aspect of the topic of the meal in Luke’s writings, these similarities between the literary technique of the gospel writer and his pagan contemporaries also shed new light on the literary quality of Luke’s narrative art within the context of ancient Greek literature.

The Paradox of the Easy Yoke: A Survey of χρηστός in Greek Literature and the Interpretational Implications for Matthew 11:30

2019 ◽  
Vol 131 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Clark Bates
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
First Century ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Word Study ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Common ◽  
Apostolic Fathers

Matthew 11:30 could easily be considered one of the most recognizable passages of the New Testament. Many find comfort and fortitude in the words of Jesus, and warm to the idea that his ‘yoke’; is ‘easy’ and ‘burden’, ‘light’. However recognized and familiar this passage may be, it has not gone unnoticed throughout scholarship as a persistent word study in need of incessant explanation. While copious amounts of ink have been spilt discussing the nature of the ‘yoke’ in Matthew 11:30, it is the position of this article that the author of Matthew, had no intention of creating such a mystery. Rather, that the emphasis is to be found in the nature of the yoke itself and the attributive use of χρηστός in Greco-Roman literature, including that of the Greek Old Testament, and the writings of the first-century Christians. This article seeks to demonstrate that the use of χρηστός in the Matthean Gospel does not mean ‘easy’ by English standards, nor was this what the audience of this Gospel would have taken it to mean, given the common use of the term. This is accomplished through an engagement of the text and message of Matthew, followed by an examination of the word’s use in Classical Greek compositions and the Apostolic Fathers, as well as its use in the LXX and the New Testament.

Paradoxography

2018 ◽  
pp. 430-444
Author(s):  
Klaus Geus ◽  
Colin Guthrie King
Keyword(s):  
Literary Field ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Ancient Science ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
History Of

The chapter explores the ancient Greek and Roman literature on wonders, “paradoxical” objects and events in the natural (and human) worlds, things that are strange but true. The main source for this literature was not observation or experience, but other literature. The chapter describes the genesis and development of the genre and defines its common characteristics; introduces its main authors; and explains its importance for the history of ancient science. Paradoxographical texts have been characterized variously as: (1) lists of facts which are considered wondrous, or (2) a sensationalist and consumer-oriented type of writing, or (3) the second-rate extracts from proper historical and scientific authors. Paradoxography was a thriving literary field from Early Hellenistic times, throughout the Greco-Roman era, and into Byzantine times.

Reading Greek Literature

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Literary Texts ◽  
Oral Poetry ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Special Quality ◽  
Egyptian Literature ◽  
Open Question

This chapter looks at Ancient Greek texts as a foil for Ancient Egyptian literature. Scholars who work on cultural products of premodern societies will always be faced with the question whether, by using modern terminology, they are unconsciously importing anachronistic and thus inappropriate concepts into their research. The word ‘literature’ implies literacy, but it is an open question whether the fundamental qualities of writing can reside in texts which have been produced and received as written and read texts. The chapter argues that the awareness of the special quality of literary texts can indeed be found in the earliest Greek texts. It compares the ways in which speaker and addressee are constructed in early oral poetry (such as lyrics and epic) and early written texts (such as epigrams) and argues that there is no clear-cut boundary between the two modes.

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.

Greco-Roman Discourses of Law

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Natural Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Critical Feature ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
Considerable Debate ◽  
The One ◽  
Divine Law

This chapter lays out ten different discourses and practices of law in ancient Greek and Roman sources (referred to as G-R 1, 2, etc. throughout the book). A critical feature of all of these discourses and practices is their presumption of a dichotomy between the unwritten natural or divine law on the one hand and positive human law on the other. Thus, all Greco-Roman constructions of divine law begin with a common premise: divine law and human law possess different and usually diametrically opposed traits. The divine or natural law—in addition to being unwritten—is generally portrayed as rational and universal, corresponding to truth, conducive to virtue, and static or unchanging. By contrast, human positive law takes the form of concrete rules and prohibitions that can be set in writing. It does not of necessity possess any of the characteristics that are inherent in the very concept of divine law: it will contain arbitrary elements that do not correspond with truth, and it must be enforced coercively; it is particular and subject to variation, and its ability to produce virtue is a matter of considerable debate.

Dynamis eis Soterian

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-252
Author(s):  
Marion Christina Hauck
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Semantic Context ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Context Analysis ◽  
1 Peter ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Common Intersection ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Common

AbstractThis study shows that the syntagma δύναµις εἰς σωτηρίαν was widely used in ancient Greek literature of the Classical, Hellenistic, and Greco-Roman periods. A semantic context analysis reveals that “danger” is the common intersection of all contexts in which the syntagma δύναµις εἰς σωτηρίαν occurs. In a modified way it also appears in texts of the New Testament (Rom 1:16; 1 Pet 1:5): By using δύναµις (θεοῦ) εἰς σωτηρίαν in a context focused on danger, Paul (as well as the author of 1 Peter) indicates that his use of the syntagma is consistent with the pagan, non-biblical use of δύναµις εἰς σωτηρίαν.

New Testament Narrative and Greco-Roman Literature

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Austin Busch
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Literary Influence ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Roman Literature

This article discusses Greek literature’s influence on the Gospels and Acts by exploring quotations of and allusions to Aratus and Euripides in Luke-Acts, and Homer in Mark. In particular, it considers the citation of Aratus’Phaenomenain Paul’s Areopagus Discourse (Acts 17:22–31), of Euripides’s Bacchae in Acts 26:14, and a number of Luke’s more oblique literary engagements with those two works. It also analyzes the subtle allusion to theOdyssey’sEurycleia episode (19.353–507) in Mark 14:3–9, situating all these representative examples of New Testament narrative’s intertextual engagement with pagan Greek literature in a Greco-Roman rhetorical context with reference to ancient illustrations and discussions of literary influence and adaptation from Virgil (vis-à-vis Homer), Theon, Quintilian, Pliny, and Seneca.

Evaluation of the Properties of Humus Liquid of Earthworm Eisenia Foetida Obtained from Different Rachis

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramiro Remigio Gaibor Fernández ◽  
Abraham Adalberto Bayas Zamora ◽  
Galo Israel Muñoz Sánchez ◽  
Cristhian Adrián Rivas Santacruz
Keyword(s):  
Plant Growth ◽  
Fulvic Acids ◽  
Cattle Manure ◽  
Eisenia Foetida ◽  
Humic And Fulvic Acids ◽  
Livestock Manure ◽  
A Value ◽  
The One ◽  
Liquid Slurry

The objective of the present investigation was to evaluate the physical characteristics of the vermicompost and the quality of the purine of the red Californian (Eisenia foetida) using different substrates of feed for these worms. For this purpose, nine treatments were studied: 75% African palm rachis + 25% cattle manure, 50% African palm rachis + 50% cattle manure, 25% African palm rachis + 75% livestock manure, 50% manure of cattle, 50% of manure of cattle, 25% of manure of cattle, 50% of manure of cattle, 50% of manure of cattle, 50% of rach of coconut + 50% of manure of Livestock, 25% coccus rachis + 75% livestock manure. The substrate made up of 50% of rachis of coconut and 50% of livestock manure can be used in nurseries or nurseries for being the one that registered a value of pH 7.3 plus the closest to the neutral compared to the others, besides this (75% of oil palm rachis and 25% of cattle manure) showed a higher content of humic and fulvic acids (0.87 and 0.45 p / p, respectively), compounds that are important for agriculture by stimulating plant growth, in addition to this reflection 0.06% sulfur content, 4.0 ppm boron, 7.0 ppm copper, 47.5 ppm iron, 6.0 ppm manganese, with a presence of microorganisms of the species Trichoderma, Penicillium, Cladosporium sp. in amounts of 1.91x105 UFC / ml, however in this substrate was obtained between 13.3 and 43.5% less liquid slurry in Comparison with other treatments.

Contribution to a Magnetite Consumption in the Karviná Mine's Preparation Plant of the Lazy Plant / Příspěvek Ke Spotřebě Magnetitu Na Úpravně Dolu Karviná, Závodu Lazy

2012 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Radim Pavlík ◽  
Vlastimil Řepka
Keyword(s):  
The One ◽  
Preparation Plant

Abstract In its introduction, this contribution deals with the usage of magnetite during the process of coal separation in the Karviná Mine's preparation plant of the Lazy Plant. Next it deals with the evaluation of quality of magnetite used in the preparation plant, losses of magnetite adhering to the products leaving the preparation plant, the recovery of a diluted suspension with focus on the efficiency of magnetite separation of the diluted suspension and the comparison of the magnetite consumption with the one in the ČSM preparation plant. In conclusions, the article presents options leading to the reduction of the magnetite consumption in the Karviná Mine's preparation plant of the Lazy plant. For comparison, the data of the ČSM Mine is stated here.

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