The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (Studien und Texte zu Antike Und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity, 78) - Softcover
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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.
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Gr.-8°, Brosch. XII, 248 S. Vorderdeckel u. erste Seiten an d. oberen Ecke leicht geknickt, sonst tadelloses Ex. // Daniele Pevarello analysiert die Sentenzen des Sextus , eine Sammlung griechischer Aphorismen aus dem zweiten Jahrhundert, die von Sextus zusammengestellt wurden, einem ansonsten unbekannten christlichen Autor. Das Besondere an Sextus' Sammlung ist die Tatsache, dass die Sentenzen die christliche Neufassung hellenistischer Sprüche sind, von denen einige immer noch in heidnischen Gnomologien und bei Porphyrios erhalten sind. Pevarello untersucht das Problem der Kontinuität und der Diskontinuität zwischen den asketischen Tendenzen des christlichen Übersetzers und den Aphorismen, die in den heidnischen Quellen Selbstbeherrschung propagieren. Er hebt besonders hervor, wie einige Aspekte der stoischen, kynischen, platonischen und pythagoreischen Moraltraditionen, wie zum Beispiel sexuelle Enthaltsamkeit, selbstgewählte Armut, das Schweigegelübde und ein Leben in Abgeschiedenheit, mit Sextus' asketischen Ansichten vor dem Hintergrund der biblischen Traditionen verbunden wurde. Indem er sich auf diese Übernahme von hellenistischen Moraltraditionen stützt, zeigt Pevarello, was für eine bedeutende Rolle die moralische Tradition der griechischen Paideia bei Aufbau und Entwicklung der Selbstbeherrschung unter den frühen christlichen Asketen spielte. ISBN: 9783161525797 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 402. Seller Inventory # 16469
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