{"product_id":"ancient-philosophy-and-early-christianity-studies-in-honor-of-johan-c-thom-9789004517486","title":"Ancient Philosophy and Early Christianity: Studies in Honor of Johan C. Thom","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume celebrates the scholarship of Professor Johan C. Thom by tackling various important topics relevant for the study of the New Testament, such as the intellectual environment of early Christianity, especially Greek, Latin, and early Jewish texts, New Testament apocrypha and other early Christian writings, as well as Greek grammar. The authors offer fresh insights on philosophical texts and traditions, the cultural repertoire of early Christian literature, critical editions, linguistics and interpretation, and comparative analyses of ancient writings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents   Abbreviations   Contributors      1 At the Borders of the New Testament    Introduction to the Volume    Gideon R. Kotzé and Philip R. Bosman      2 Popular or Religious?    An Ongoing Discussion with Johan Thom’s Concept of Philosophy  in Early Imperial Times    Rainer Hirsch-Luipold      3 Did Ancient Philosophers Read Philo?     Philo of Alexandria and Plotinus    Gregory E. Sterling      4 Popular Philosophy and the Placita of Aëtius    David T. Runia      5 Cynics in the Crosshairs    The loci classici for the Anonymous Cynics of the  Early Roman Empire    Philip R. Bosman      6 The Oracular Theme in Plato’s Apology of Socrates    Clive Chandler      7 Transatlantic Utopias    Plato’s Republic and the Guarani Missions in South America    Gabriele Cornelli      8 La lecture néoplatonicienne de la biographie de Pythagore par Jamblique    Quatre exemples tirés de son traité Sur le mode de vie pythagoricien    Constantinos Macris      9 John Chrysostom on Pythagoreanism    Chris L. de Wet      10 When Horses Weep    Animal Emotions and Human Suffering in the Aeneid    Annemarie de Villiers      11 Taxation in the Early Greek World and the Ethics of Tax Compliance and Evasion in Early Greek Moral Thought    John T. Fitzgerald      12 Did All First-Century Roads Lead to Rome?     The Politics of Biblical (nt) Travels    Jeremy Punt      13 Dionysius of Halicarnassus’s Roman Antiquities as a Comparative Text for Luke–Acts    Carl R. Holladay      14 Writing the Sublime in a Destitute Time    L.L. Welborn      15 Crucifying Desires—Desires Crucified    On the Meaning of Two Crucifixion Metaphors  (Seneca De vita beata 19.3; Gal 5:24)    David du Toit      16 Which Seneca, Which Paul?     The Pseudepigraphic Correspondence    Gretchen Reydams-Schils      17 Miracles of the Young Jesus    David Konstan      18 Acts of Timothy    The Latin Tradition    Clare K. Rothschild      19 Imperative Aspect in the Gospel according to Mark    Performative Instruction through Direct Speech    Cilliers Breytenbach      20 Johan Thom’s Contribution to Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Judaism    Gideon R. Kotzé      Index of Authors   Index of Subjects","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210845708631,"sku":"9789004517486","price":115.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ancient-philosophy-and-early-christianity-studies-in-honor-of-johan-c-thom-9789004517486","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}