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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Greco-Roman World"”.
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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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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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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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Conquering the World: The Countercultural Victory of 1 John in Greco-Roman Context
… that the Johannine believer “conquers the world” (5:4–5). This thesis reexamines the contention expressed through the conquering 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 …
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Trans history from antiquity for today: reading gender in Imperial Roman literature
… of gender within the literature of the Roman Empire by erasing the trans potentiality of these texts’ fluid and multifaceted conception of gender. The lack of distinction between gender and the sexed body means that we cannot analyze gender in the Greco-Roman world from a modern binary …
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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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Metamorphoses of the Butterfly in Classical Antiquity: From the Female Body to the Soul of the Dead
… focused on its association with the soul in the Greco-Roman world, the butterfly was assigned a broader and more complex range of figurative meanings, specifically related to the erotic domain and the female body. The scope of this project is to investigate the metamorphoses that the symbol of …
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Women in the Greetings of Rom 16:1-16: A Study of Mutuality and Women's Ministry in the Letter to the Romans
… of mutuality in Pauline churches as specified in Romans 16:1-16. The three major issues focussed in this study are the leadership roles of women in the Pauline churches (Romans 16:1-16), the nature of mutuality reflected in the greetings to men and women, and the way in which the greetings to men …
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Hellenistic astrology as a case study of 'cultural translation'
… a case study for 'Cultural translation' in the Greco-Roman world. 'Cultural translation' denotes here the transition of ideas and knowledge from one culture to another, making them available in the recipient culture by the ‘translation’ in its broader sense, using recipient’s own already …
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Recovering a Classically Oral Homiletic
… to the primarily oral orientations of the Greco-Roman world of classic rhetoric, and rehabilitates rhetoric with theological and homiletic implications. </p><p> Quintilian's infinitely flexible oratory represents the richness of the communicative environment during the infancy of the …
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The Lord Opened Her Heart: Women, Work, and Leadership in Acts of the Apostles
… stories set against the expectations of women in Greco-Roman antiquity reveals their unconventional situations. In particular, this dissertation takes special notice of the ways in which representations of the `ideal woman' in the Greco Roman world are at variance with the portraits of Tabitha and …
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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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According to What Nomos: Understanding Romans 2 in Conversation with Diaspora Jewish Conceptions of Nomos
… hand, scholars debate over the degree to which Greco-Roman conceptions of nomos shape the understanding of nomos present in Romans 2. On the other hand, Paul appears to have the Jewish law in mind, and there is no consensus about how Paul conceives of the Jewish law in his argument, given the …
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Empathy and Compassion in the Medicine and Literature of the First and Second Centuries AD
… in the first and second centuries AD of the Greco-Roman world. It focuses on the medical texts of the period, but also explores the other genres of the ancient Greek novel and moral philosophy. Despite lacking a specific word for it, the first and second-century Greeks and Romans understood …
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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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Woman is a Parable
… of women in parables based on an androcentric world is explored. However, this position is challenged by a womanist perspective. Because it is challenged, the process of conscientization has begun and the struggle for the lack of self-worth follows. With African womanist epideictic perspective …
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Re-contextualisation of the Lukan Oikos : a social scientific approach
… on the pattern of the extended family in the Greco-Roman world of the first century. This allowed for the development of a rich culture of interpersonal relationships. It was within this environment that the love taught and exemplified by Jesus found its first concrete expression. In family …
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Diplomatic communication between Byzantium and the West under the late Palaiologoi (1354-1453)
This dissertation studies the diplomatic communication between the Byzantine Empire and the West during the last century of the empire’s life from 1354 to 1453. The first chapter deals with ambassadorial travel to the West, studying land and sea routes, the season of travel, its speed and duration …
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Ancient Greek Tragedy: a study on the nature of Dystopianism
This thesis concerns dystopianism on the Athenian Tragic stage in the fifth century BC. It reconsiders Zeitlin's view that Thebes was the mirror image of Athens and instead argues Argos represents the anti-Athens. It also explore how Thebes and Argos were portrayed, arguing that although both were …
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The foreign policy of Macedon c.513 to 346 BC
… upon it. Our modern concept of the ancient world is necessarily constructed from materials derived from reports, and from the various other sources which have survived to use. The purpose of Chapter 1 is to establish how the reports and sources which pertain to the fifth century BC will be …
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