Ancient Philosophy and Early Christianity: Studies in Honor of Johan C. Thom

474 Pages·2022·2.649 MB·English

by  Philip R. Bosman, Gideon R. Kotzé

Ancient Philosophy and Early Christianity
Supplements
to
Novum Testamentum
Executive Editors
M.M. Mitchell (Chicago)
D.P. Moessner (Fort Worth)
Editorial Board
H.W. Attridge (New Haven) – C. Breytenbach (Berlin)
C. Gerber (Berlin) – J.K. Elliott (Leeds)
R. Hirsch-Luipold (Bern) – C.R. Holladay (Atlanta)
J.W. Knust (Chapel Hill, NC) – D. Marguerat (Lausanne)
M. Niehoff (Jerusalem) – B. Nongbri (Oslo)
Uta Poplutz (Wuppertal) – J.E. Spittler (Charlottesville, VA)
J.C. Thom (Stellenbosch) – P. Trebilco (Dunedin)
C.M. Tuckett (Oxford) – J. Verheyden (Leuven)
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Johan C. Thom
Ancient Philosophy and
Early Christianity
Studies in Honor of Johan C. Thom
Edited by
Gideon R. Kotzé
Philip R. Bosman
LEIDEN | BOSTON
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Contents
Preface xi
Abbreviations xii
Contributors xviii
1 Ancient Philosophy and Early Christianity
Introduction to the Volume 1
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 11
Rainer Hirsch-Luipold
3 Did Ancient Philosophers Read Philo?
Philo of Alexandria and Plotinus 37
Gregory E. Sterling
4 Popular Philosophy and the Placita of Aëtius 64
David T. Runia
5 Cynics in the Crosshairs
The loci classici for the Anonymous Cynics of the
Early Roman Empire 84
Philip R. Bosman
6 The Oracular Theme in Plato’s Apology of Socrates 109
Clive Chandler
7 Transatlantic Utopias
Plato’s Republic and the Guarani Missions in South America 124
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 137
Constantinos Macris
9 John Chrysostom on Pythagoreanism 179
Chris L. de Wet
viii Contents
10 When Horses Weep
Animal Emotions and Human Suffering in the Aeneid 201
Annemarie de Villiers
11 Taxation in the Early Greek World and the Ethics of Tax Compliance
and Evasion in Early Greek Moral Thought 217
John T. Fitzgerald
12 Did All First-Century Roads Lead to Rome?
The Politics of Biblical (nt) Travels 246
Jeremy Punt
13 Dionysius of Halicarnassus’s Roman Antiquities as a Comparative Text
for Luke–Acts 266
Carl R. Holladay
14 Writing the Sublime in a Destitute Time 287
L.L. Welborn
15 Crucifying Desires—Desires Crucified
On the Meaning of Two Crucifixion Metaphors
(Seneca De vita beata 19.3; Gal 5:24) 313
David du Toit
16 Which Seneca, Which Paul?
The Pseudepigraphic Correspondence 337
Gretchen Reydams-Schils
17 Miracles of the Young Jesus 350
David Konstan
18 Acts of Timothy
The Latin Tradition 362
Clare K. Rothschild
19 Imperative Aspect in the Gospel according to Mark
Performative Instruction through Direct Speech 388
Cilliers Breytenbach
Contents ix
20 Johan Thom’s Contribution to Hellenistic Philosophy and Early
Judaism 414
Gideon R. Kotzé
Index of Modern Authors 441
Index of Subjects 451