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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Hellenistic Judaism"”.
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Redeemed from the curse: Paul's understanding of the law and Gentiles in the light of Hellenistic Judaism
… of the law and Gentiles in the light of Hellenistic Judaism. Chapter 1 questions whether or not Gentiles are under the law in Paul. The thesis of this dissertation is that, although Paul acknowledges Gentiles to be without the law (Rom 2:14) and Israel as having the law as her privilege …
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The Contemplation of the Transcendent Heart: Tracing the ἡγεμονικόν from the Stoics to Origen
… understanding of the soul within a strand of Hellenistic Judaism. Crucially for the theme of transcendence, Origen asserts that both God and the soul are immaterial. God and created ‘being’ differ, because ‘being’ bears some form of embodiment. The soul relates to the body analogously. The …
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The Representation of God in First Corinthians 8-10: Understanding Paul in the Context of Wisdom, Philo, and Josephus
… argument, especially in comparison to other Hellenistic Jewish idol polemics. While this is an argument made about the acceptability or non-acceptability of particular practices, it is an argument made on theological grounds, and these theological underpinnings have been largely unexplored. …
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Neologisms in LXX Jeremiah: Word Formation within the History of Greek
… competence and cultural integration in Hellenistic society. Chapter 1 introduces the problem by outlining the frequency and interpretive value of neologisms in the LXX, with a focus on Jeremiah. It reviews past scholarship and methodological frameworks, distinguishing between …
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Septuagint Lexicography and Language Change in Greek Judges
This dissertation identifies and addresses key issues in Septuagint lexicography using case studies from the Greek version of Judges. The first chapter outlines the state of the question on the textual history of Judges in Hebrew and Greek, and also presents my lexicographical method and related …
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Conceptualizing Variation in Greek Exodus and Postclassical Greek
This project frames Jewish translation practice within Greek diachrony and the broader realities of bilingual cognitive processing. Often, linguistic research on the Greek of the Pentateuch has focused on isolated lexemes, resulting in an overemphasis on a ‘literal’ translation process …