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1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 147
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Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 147.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Women and Ancient Philosophy; Socrates and Plato; Aristotle; Xenophon; Musonius Rufus, Plutarch, and Crates; Pythagorean Writings; The Pastoral Letters; A Curriculum for Female Philosophers; PART ONE. THE PYTHAGOREAN WOMEN'S LETTERS; Chapter One. The Pythagorean Letter Collection; The Codex Tradition; Papyrus Hauniensis II. 13; Dating the Letters; Philosophical Background; Reading Strategies for Letter Collections; The Original Audience for the Letter Collection(s); Annotated Translations; Collection MM: Letters of Melissa and Myia. |
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Collection TH3: Letters of TheanoChapter Two. Female Pythagorean Teachers; Pseudepigraphy and the Pythagorean Women's Letters; The Pseudonym Melissa -- The Pseudonym Myia -- The Pseudonym Theano -- The Function of Female Pseudonyms in the Pythagorean Letters; Chapter Three. Teaching Strategies; The Letter Collection MM: Melissa to Kleareta and Myia to Phyllis; Rhetorical Analysis of Melissa to Kleareta, a Paraenetic Letter; Rhetorical Analysis of Myia to Phyllis, a Paraenetic Letter; The Letter Collection TH3: Theano to Euboule, Theano to Nikostrate, and Theano to Kallisto. |
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Rhetorical Analysis of ""Theano to Euboule, "" a Letter of CensureRhetorical Analysis of ""Theano to Nikostrate, "" a Letter of Censure; Rhetorical Analysis of ""Theano to Kallisto, "" a Paraenetic Letter; Chapter Four. Topics for Women; Subject Matter: Melissa to Kleareta; Subject Matter: Myia to Phyllis; Subject Matter: Theano to Euboule; Subject Matter: Theano to Nikostrate; Subject Matter: Theano to Kallisto; Conclusion to Part One: The Good Woman Topos; ""The Good Woman"" Topos; PART TWO. THE PASTORAL LETTERS; Chapter Five. The Pastorals Letter Collection. |
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Text History: The Pastorals as a Sub-Collection within the Corpus PaulinumInternal Evidence for the Pastorals Corpus; Reading Strategies for Letter Collections; Conclusion; Chapter Six. Teachers and Learners; Teachers in the Pastorals; Male Teachers; Female Teachers; Teachers as Examples for Imitation; Learners in the Pastorals: Recipients of Paraenesis and Rebuke; Male Learners; Female Learners; Conclusions and Comparisons; Chapter Seven. Teachings Strategies; Teaching Methods: Paraenesis and Rebuke; Antitheses as Instructional Devices; Form and Function of Antitheses; Warnings and Promises. |
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Vices and VirtuesImmoral and Moral Examples; 1. Scriptural Example: Eve; 2. Examples of Unnamed Widows; 3. Historical Examples: Lois and Eunice, Prisca and Claudia; 4. Examples of Unnamed Older Women; 5. Examples for Men and Women; Further Comparisons with the Pythagorean Letters; Conclusions; Chapter Eight. Topics for Women; Sophrosyne in the Pastoral Letters; Sophrosyne for Women; Sophrosyne for Men; Comparison of Masculine and Feminine sophrosyne in the Pastorals; Modest Deportment (Adornment and Speech); Good Women: Philosophers of the Household; Households and the Pastorals; Wife. |
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In Moral Education for Women in the Pastoral and Pythagorean Letters: Philosophers of the Household, Annette Bourland Huizenga examines the Greco-Roman moral-philosophical "curriculum" for women by comparing these two pseudepigraphic epistolary collections |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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English. |
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Bible. Pastoral Epistles -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Bible. Pastoral Epistles. |
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Bible. Pastoral Epistles. |
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Women -- Conduct of life.
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Women -- Conduct of life. |
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Christian women -- Conduct of life.
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Christian women -- Conduct of life. |
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy. |
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Philosophy, Ancient. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Social. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9789004244993 9004244999 (DLC) 2012047370 |
| ISBN |
9004245189 (electronic book) |
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9789004245181 (electronic book) |
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9789004244993 (alkaline paper) |
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9004244999 (alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004245181. |
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