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1 online resource (xii, 248 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum,
1436-3003 ;
78 Studies and texts in antiquity and Christianity ;
78
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Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum ; 78.
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Revised thesis (Ph. D.) - University of Cambridge, 2012. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the golden cup of Babylon -- Sentences of Sextus : reception and interpretation -- Introduction -- Testimony of origen -- Sextus in Contra Celsum -- Sentences among radical ascetics -- Controversies over the sentences in Latin Christianity -- Rufinus' Latin Sextus : a manual of asceticism -- Jerome : the sentences and moral perfectionism -- Sentences and the Pelagian understanding of sin -- Later Ascetic tradition up to the modern era -- Evagrius of Pontus and the Armenian Sextus -- Sentences in Egypt and Syria -- Sextus in the monastic tradition of the west -- From the monastic scriptorium to the printing press -- Sextus in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- First critical studies -- Sextus in nineteenth-century German scholarship -- Beginning of the twentieth century -- Sentences of Sextus in the modern scholarly debate -- Sextus between Hellenistic and Christian morality -- Sextus between early Christian wisdom and Gnostic asceticism -- Sextus in recent scholarship -- Conclusion -- Looking forward -- Sextus and sexual morality : castration, celibacy and procreation -- Introduction -- Sext. 12-13 and 273 : the problem of castration -- Self-castration in the sentences -- Literal and allegorical castration -- From suicide to castration -- Sext. 230a : celibacy in the sentences of Sextus -- Companions of God? : variations on Paul -- Special bond between God and the ascetic continent -- Sextus, procreation and the Pythagorean tradition -- Marriage in Sextus and Clitarchus -- The ... husband in Sext. 231 -- Aborting procreationism -- Diet of love -- Conclusion -- Looking forward -- Sages without property : the example of Sext. 15-21 -- Introduction -- The ... in Sextus -- Dispossession and freedom -- Poverty as godlike self-sufficiency -- Self-sufficiency as an ascetic practice in the Sentences -- From the ... to the ... -- Ascetic Christians in a Cynic's Rags? -- Poor sages and poor monks -- Sextus and Caesar's Denarius -- "To the world the things of the world" (Sext. 20) -- Rule of necessity -- Sextus' interpretation and Alexandrian Christianity -- Sextus and wealth : further pagan and Christian interactions -- Conclusion -- Looking forward -- Wordiness, brevity and silence in Sextus -- Introduction -- Dangers of Wordiness -- Idle, thoughtless talking -- Prov 10:19 LXX in Sext. 155 -- Sextus and brevity -- Words and the Word : brevity as a theological and moral problem -- "Wisdom accompanies brevity of speech" (Sext. 156) -- Sextus' Laconic Sage -- Concise Socrates, concise Moses, concise Jesus -- From brevity to silence -- Austerity of the Christian sage -- Conclusion -- Looking Forward -- Social life of the Ascetic sage -- Introduction -- A sage in the world : philanthropy, purity and separation -- Sage as a philanthropist -- Wisdom as an act of purification -- World as a separate entity in Sextus -- Sage's solitude -- From cosmopolitism to political disengagement -- Seclusion and the quest for wisdom -- Contemplation and Imitation -- Soul's journey towards God -- Contemplation and imitation of God -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of references -- Index of authors -- Index of subjects. |
| Summary |
"Daniele Pevarello analyzes the Sentences of Sextus, a second century collection of Greek aphorisms compiled by Sextus, an otherwise unknown Christian author. The specific character of Sextus' collection lies in the fact that the Sentences are a Christian rewriting of Hellenistic sayings, some of which are still preserved in pagan gnomologies and in Porphyry. Pevarello investigates the problem of continuity and discontinuity between the ascetic tendencies of the Christian compiler and aphorisms promoting self-control in his pagan sources. In particular, he shows how some aspects of the Stoic, Cynic, Platonic and Pythagorean moral traditions, such as sexual restraint, voluntary poverty, the practice of silence and of a secluded life were creatively combined with Sextus' ascetic agenda against the background of the biblical tradition. Drawing on this adoption of Hellenistic moral traditions, Pevarello shows how great a part the moral tradition of Greek paideia played in the shaping and development of self-restraint among early Christian ascetics"-- Publisher's website. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sentences of Sextus.
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Sentences of Sextus. |
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Sextus, Pythagoreus.
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Sextus, Pythagoreus. |
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Sentences of Sextus. |
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Asceticism -- Christianity.
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Asceticism. |
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Christianity. |
| Added Title |
Sentences of Sextus and the origins of Christian asceticism |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Pevarello, Daniele, 1974- Sentences of Sextus and the origins of Christian ascetiscism. Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2013] 9783161525797 (DLC) 2013482704 (OCoLC)864435280 |
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9783161526862 (electronic book) |
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3161526864 (electronic book) |
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9783161525797 |
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3161525795 |
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1306387485 (e-book) |
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9781306387484 (e-book) |
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