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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"Greco-Roman"”.
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Female Friendship in Greco-Roman Antiquity
… Chapters Three and Four, which examine the Roman male and female perspectives. The male sources reveal a peculiarly Roman concern with power and hierarchy, while the theme of female speech continues in a way that is by turns suspicious, trivializing, and empowering The epigraphic evidence in …
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Greco-Roman friendship in the Gospel according to Luke.
… those references to friendship in light of Greco-Roman discourse on the subject in order to attain a wholistic understanding of friendship in the Gospel of Luke. It finds that the Gospel of Luke draws from the wide spectrum of Greco-Roman friendship in its portrayal of Jesus, his disciples, …
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The Hands That Write: Life and Training of Greco-Roman Scribes
<p>This dissertation answers the question, “How were scribes in the ancient world trained?” The following social history elevates the marginalized voices of ancient scribes, emphasizing their personhood and their agency as human individuals. Chapter 1 establishes the scope of the thesis along with …
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Conquering the World: The Countercultural Victory of 1 John in Greco-Roman Context
… language in 1 John within the context of the Greco-Roman world. The approach to this study is both exegetical and contextual, with a philological analysis of the First Letter of John, and an attempt to understand possible cultural implications by drawing on classical sources, extant material …
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Four Greco-Roman Era Temples of Near Eastern Fertility Goddesses: An Analysis of Architectural Tradition
… The local goddess was known as Dea Syria to the Romans and Atargatis to the Greeks. Lucian's so-named De Dea Syria is an important record of life and religion in Roman Syria. De Dea Syria presents to us an Oriental cult of a fertility goddess as seen through the eyes of a Hellenized Syrian …
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"Virgin" as Secondary Gender Identity in 1 Corinthians 7 and Its Jewish and Greco-Roman Background
… of the label across 529 uses in the Jewish and Greco-Roman background literature of the New Testament, as well as the contextual associations surrounding its use in these texts. The fifth chapter examines 1 Corinthians 7 in light of the previous chapter’s findings, highlighting any additional …
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The Topography of utopia : Revelation 21-22 in light of ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman utopianism.
… of ancient utopian expectations according to Greco-Roman and Jewish literature, and second, to read Revelation 21–22 in light of these utopian expectations. In order to construct a description of ancient utopianism, I survey a large swath of ancient literature and categorize the various forms …
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The Classical in the Contemporary: Contemporary Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity
… Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity.’ From the viewpoint of classical reception studies, I am asking what contemporary British art (by, for example, Sarah Lucas, Damien Hirst, and Mark Wallinger) has to do with the classical tradition – both the art and …
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I consign her wretched walk, her words, deeds, and evil talk: erotic magic and women in the ancient Greco-Roman world
Magic in the ancient Greco-Roman world has only recently begun to receive attention from historians. Thousands of curses, spells, and remnants of magical practices prior to widespread Christianity have been overlooked in the past mainly because they were seen as unimportant, or at least not …
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Bloodied Hearts and Bawdy Planets: Greco-Roman Astrology and the Regenerative Force of the Feminine in Shakespeare’s <i>The Winter’s Tale</i>
… drew richly, in all of his works, from Greco-Roman myth, Greek drama, and history, and embedded in all of those disciplines is the biopolitics of the <em>polis. </em>Classical Athenian culture purposefully limited the rights of women, who were thought to lack emotional control, in …
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Paul's Apparent Reversal of Concern for the Weak Brother in l Corinthians 10:29B-30: an Examination of the Text in Light of Greco-Roman Rhetoric
<p><em>Problem</em> . In 1 Cor 8:1-10:29a, Paul has been consistently on the side of the brother in 8:11 whose conscience is weak to eat food offered to idols. But, in 10:29b-30, he seems to reverse himself, here suggesting that one should be able to eat anything, regardless of its provenance or …
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A Portrait of the Leadership of Women in Early Christianity: an Archaeological Study in Light of the Historical and Socio-Cultural Contexts
… Such studies rarely take a deep look at the Greco-Roman background and at the historical, socio-cultural contexts. This contextualization can be quite fruitful and should be informed by recent archaeological discoveries of the first centuries of Christianity. Thus, this dissertation first …
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The Apocalypticism of Hesiod, Plato, & Virgil: Expanding the Boundaries for Christian Apocalyptic Intertexts
… one hand, this study advances our knowledge of Greco-Roman influences upon early Christian apocalypticism, thus laying a foundation for new intertextual studies. On the other hand, this study bridges apocalypticism research towards certain Greek and Latin authors, thereby creating new pathways …
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Reading dreams : an audience-critical approach to the dreams in the Gospel of Matthew.
… social and literary character of dreams in the Greco-Roman world. Chapter Two describes the social function of dreams, noting that dreams constituted one form of divination in the ancient world. This religious character of dreams is further described by considering the practice of dreams in …
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A socio-rhetorical exegesis of 1 Timothy 2:8-15
… practices and traditions from the dominant Greco-Roman culture of the first century. I demonstrate, therefore, that the portrayal of women in the text reflects a cultural imperative, and not a theological imperative, that was co-opted from the ""secular"" Greco-Roman culture of the day and …
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The Letter of James and Middle Platonism: Tracing Early Christian Engagements with Greek Philosophy
… of James within the philosophical context of Greco-Roman antiquity, and argues that what are typically seen as Jewish “Wisdom themes” in the letter should instead be understood in terms of Greek philosophical discourse. Through comparative analysis, it shows that the central concerns in the …
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The 'poor and the rich' in Luke-Acts : a socio-cultural and ideological analysis of Luke's social vision for the new Christian community
… in which Luke wrote. Specific features of urban Greco-Roman society will be analysed. These include the social, cultural, political, economic and religious dimensions, all of which will be used to construct a particular understanding of Luke’s attitude to the issues of wealth and poverty in his …
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An Archaeological History of Carthaginian Imperialism
… survives. Due to the thorough nature of Roman destruction and subsequent re-use of the site, archaeological excavations at Carthage have recovered only limited portions of the built environment, material culture and just 6000 Carthaginian inscriptions. As a result of these limitations, …
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