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Title Religio-philosophical discourses in the Mediterranean world : from Plato, through Jesus, to late antiquity / edited by Anders Klostergaard Petersen, George van Kooten
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 420 pages)
Series Ancient philosophy & religion, 2542-3576 ; Volume 1
Ancient philosophy & religion ; volume 1.
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Plato -- Plato's Philosophy -- Why Not Just Platonic Religion? / Anders Klostergaard Petersen -- Platonic Piety: ̀Putting Humpty Dumpty Together Again' / Frisbee Sheffield -- Real Euthyphro Problem, Solved / Nicholas Denyer -- Religion, Philosophy, and the Demons in Between / Lars Albinus -- pt. 2 Explorations in an Emerging Common Discourse -- Philosophical Traces in the Sibylline Oracles / Helen Van Noorden -- Philosophy and Religion and Their Interactions in 4 Maccabees / Anders Klostergaard Petersen -- Rapprochement of Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Consolation: Seneca, Paul, and Beyond / Christoph Jedan -- pt. 3 Placing Jesus among the Philosophers -- Jesus among the Philosophers: The Cynic Connection Explored and Affirmed, with a Note on Philo's Jewish-Cynic Philosophy / Bernhard Lang -- Last Days of Socrates and Christ: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo Read in Counterpoint with John's Gospel / George van Kooten -- Criticism of Verbosity in Ancient Philosophical and Early Christian Writings: Jesus' Critique of the ̀Polylogia' of Pagan Prayers (Matthew 6:7) in its Graeco-Roman Context / Daniele Pevarello -- pt. 4 Reconsidering Early Pagan-Christian Relations -- Christians According to Second-Century Philosophers / Simon Gathercole -- Epictetus' Views on Christians: A Closed Case Revisited / Niko Huttunen -- Plotinus, Origenes, and Ammonius on the ̀King' / Harold Tarrant -- Neo-Platonic Readings of Embodied Divine Presence: Iamblichus and Julian / Ilinca Tanaseanu-Dobler
Summary This first volume of the new Brill series "Ancient Philosophy andamp; Religion" is a collection of articles by scholars of Classics, Ancient Philosophy, and Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. The articles are based on papers presented at two colloquia on the interface between Ancient Philosophy and Religion at the universities of Aarhus and Cambridge. They focus extensively on Platonic philosophy and piety and sketch an emerging religio-philosophical discourse in ancient Judaism (both in the Sibylline Oracles and 4 Maccabees). Furthermore, this volume studies Seneca's religio-philosophical understanding of 'consolation', compares early depictions of Jesus with those of ancient philosophers, and, finally, reconsiders responses of pagan philosophers to Christianity from the second century to Late Antiquity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Philosophy and religion -- Congresses
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
Philosophy and religion
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Petersen, Anders Klostergaard, editor.
Kooten, Geurt Hendrik van, 1969- editor.
LC no. 2017008636
ISBN 9789004323131
9004323139