Ancient Philosophy and Early Christianity : : Studies in Honor of Johan C. Thom / / edited by Gideon R. Kotzé and Philip R. Bosman.

• Superior document: Novum Testamentum, Supplements ; 188
• TeilnehmendeR: Kotzé, Gideon R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements ; 188.; Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2023.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (474 pages)

This 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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Frontispiece -- Copyright page -- Preface / Gideon R. Kotzé -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- 1 Ancient Philosophy and Early Christianity / Gideon R. Kotzé / Philip R. Bosman -- 2 Popular or Religious? / Rainer Hirsch-Luipold -- 3 Did Ancient Philosophers Read Philo? / Gregory E. Sterling -- 4 Popular Philosophy and the Placita of Aëtius / David T. Runia -- 5 Cynics in the Crosshairs / Philip R. Bosman -- 6 The Oracular Theme in Plato’s Apology of Socrates / Clive Chandler -- 7 Transatlantic Utopias / Gabriele Cornelli -- 8 La lecture néoplatonicienne de la biographie de Pythagore par Jamblique / Constantinos Macris -- 9 John Chrysostom on Pythagoreanism / Chris L. de Wet -- 10 When Horses Weep / 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? / 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 / David du Toit -- 16 Which Seneca, Which Paul? / Gretchen Reydams-Schils -- 17 Miracles of the Young Jesus / David Konstan -- 18 Acts of Timothy / Clare K. Rothschild -- 19 Imperative Aspect in the Gospel according to Mark / Cilliers Breytenbach -- 20 Johan Thom’s Contribution to Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Judaism / Gideon R. Kotzé -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Topics.