Stefan Szymik: Anti-Epicurean Polemics in the New Testament Writings
Anti-Epicurean Polemics in the New Testament Writings
Buch
- Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 10/2023
- Binding: Gebunden, gebunden
- Language: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9783525500224
- Order number: 11430812
- Volume: 338 Pages
- Weight: 675 g
- Format: 235 x 160 mm
- Thickness: 28 mm
- Release date: 9.10.2023
- Series: Lublin Theological Studies - Volume 005
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
Stefan Szymik analyses New Testament texts in terms of polemic and anti-Epicurean rhetoric. To what extent and how did Epicurus and his philosophical thought influence the first Christian Churches? How did Christians react to Epicureanism? Although the New Testament only includes one account of an encounter between the Apostle Paul and the Epicureans (Acts 17: 18), the probability of their contacts was high, given the popularity of Epicureanism in the Roman Empire in the first century CE. As a vital component of Hellenistic-Roman culture, Epicureanism should be taken into account in research on the New Testament, becoming a point of reference and part of the content of comparative analyses.Notes:
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