Plutarch and the New Testament in Their Religio-Philosophical Contexts : Bridging Discourses in the World of the Early Roman Empire (Brill's Plutarch Studies)

Hirsch-Luipold, Rainer (EDT)

Brill（2022/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004505063
• DDC分類 184

Full Description

How to read Plutarch in the context of New Testament studies? Almost 50 years after the seminal project on the topic led by Hans Dieter Betz, this volume elevates once again the issue's priority. Bridging discourses is a fitting description both of the religio-philosophical spirit of Plutarch, the Platonist philosopher and priest of Apollo at Delphi, and the task of bringing his writings into fruitful dialogue with the writings of the New Testament, Hellenistic Judaism, and Early Christianity. Taken together, these authors constitute the religious Platonism of the early imperial era. Contributions from the fields of New Testament, classics, philosophy, religious studies, and patristics explore various ways of how to establish these bridges.

Contents

Introduction

 Rainer Hirsch-Luipold

Part 1 Plutarch and the New Testament Revisited

1 Plutarch and the New Testament: History, Challenges and Perspectives

 Rainer Hirsch-Luipold

2 Why Compare Plutarch and the New Testament? The Betz Project and the Form, Function and Limitations of Greco-Roman Parallel Collections

 David E. Aune

3 Plutarch's Monotheism and the New Testament

 Frederick E. Brenk

Part 2 Plutarch, Philo and the New Testament

4 "God Is the Measure of All Things": Plutarch and Philo on the Benefits of Religious Worship

 Zlatko Pleše

5 When East and West Meet: Eastern Religions and Western Philosophy in Philo of Alexandria and Plutarch of Chaeronea

 Gregory E. Sterling

6 Philautia, Self-Knowledge, and Oikeôsis in Philo of Alexandria and Plutarch

 Gretchen Reydams-Schils

7 The Relation between Anthropology and Love Ethics in John against the Backdrop of Plutarchan and Philonic Ideas

 Athanasios Despotis

8 The Mechanics of Death: Philo's and Plutarch's Views on Human Death

 Julian Elschenbroich

Part 3 Plutarch, the New Testament and the Church Fathers

9 The Logos in Amelius' Fragment on the Gospel of John and Plutarch's De Iside

 Ilinca Tanaseanu-Doebler

10 Plutarch's Reception in the Church Fathers

 Georgiana Huian

11 Plutarch of Chaeronea, Clement of Alexandria and the Bio- and Technomorphic Aspects of Creation

 Lautaro Roig Lanzillota

Index Locorum

Index Rerum