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The powers of personification : rhetorical purpose in het Book of Wisdom and the Letter to the Romans.
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ISBN: 9783110209761 3110209764 Year: 2008 Volume: 161 Publisher: Berlin Walter de Gruyter


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The 'Powers' of Personification
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ISBN: 128199328X 9786611993283 3110209772 9783110209778 9783110209761 3110209764 Year: 2008 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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While scholars have often found value in comparing Wisdom and Romans, a comparison of the use of personification in these works has not yet been made, despite the striking parallels between them. Furthermore, while scholars have studied many of these personifications in detail, no one has investigated an individual personification with respect to the general use of the trope in the work. Instead, most of this research focuses on a personification in relation to its nature as either a rhetorical device or a supernatural power. The "Powers" of Personification seeks to push beyond this debate by evaluating the evidence in a different light - that of its purpose within the overall use of personification in the respective work and in comparison with another piece of contemporaneous theological literature. This book proposes that the authors of Wisdom and Romans employ personification to distance God from the origin of evil, to deflect attention away from the problem of righteous suffering to the positive sides of the experience, or to defer the solution for the suffering of the righteous to the future.


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Paul and Seneca in dialogue
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ISBN: 9789004341357 9789004341364 9004341366 9004341358 Year: 2017 Volume: 2 Publisher: Brill

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Paul and Seneca in Dialogue assembles an international group of scholars to compare the philosophical and theological strands in Paul and Seneca’s writings, placing them in dialogue with one another. Arguably, no other first-century, non-Christian writer’s thoughts resemble Paul’s as closely as Seneca’s, and scholars have often found value in comparing Pauline concepts with Seneca’s writings. Nevertheless, apart from the occasional article, broad comparison, or cross-reference, an in-depth critical comparison of these writers has not been attempted for over fifty years – since Sevenster’s monograph of 1961. In the light of the vast amount of research offering new perspectives on both Paul and Seneca since the early 1960s, this new comparison of the two writers is long overdue.


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Paul and the Greco-Roman philosophical tradition
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ISBN: 9780567657916 0567657914 9780567657930 9780567657923 Year: 2017 Volume: 527 Publisher: London Bloomsbury T&T Clark

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This volume provides a fresh examination of the relationship of Greco-Roman philosophy to Pauline Christianity and an in-depth look at different approaches currently employed by scholars who draw upon philosophical settings in the ancient world to inform their understanding of Paul. The book is divided into two sections, one consisting of essays that situate Greco-Roman philosophy as a social setting for Pauline Christianity, and one consisting of exegetical studies dealing with various passages where motifs emerging from ancient philosophical culture provide illumination. The chapters summarize the state of the discussion on Paul's relationship to the Greco-Roman philosophical tradition, examine obstacles to positioning Paul in relation to ancient philosophy, compare different approaches, and compile the diverse methodologies into a single comparative study. It then interrogates several philosophical motifs for the exegetical insights that they may yield when interpreting Paul's letters.


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Paul and the second century.
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ISBN: 9780567158277 0567158276 Year: 2011 Volume: 412 Publisher: London Clark

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"This volume presents an extended juxtaposition of Paul's thought with a wide selection of writings from the second century"--From publisher description.


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Paul and the giants of philosophy
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ISBN: 9780830873661 083087366X 9780830852284 Year: 2019 Publisher: Downers Grove, Illinois

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"How was the Apostle Paul influenced by the great philosophers of his age? Dodson and Briones have gathered contributors with diverse views who aim to make Paul's engagement with ancient philosophy accessible. These essays address Paul's interaction with Greco-Roman philosophical thinking on a particular topic, including discussion questions and reading lists to help readers engage the material further"--

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