Origin of Sin

Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity

AvDavid Konstan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Where did the idea of sin arise from? In this meticulously argued book, David Konstan takes a close look at classical Greek and Roman texts, as well as the Bible and early Judaic and Christian writings, and argues that the fundamental idea of "sin" arose in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, although this original meaning was obscured in later Jewish and Christian interpretations. Through close philological examination of the words for "sin," in particular the Hebrew hata' and the Greek hamartia, he traces their uses over the centuries in four chapters, and concludes that the common modern definition of sin as a violation of divine law indeed has antecedents in classical Greco-Roman conceptions, but acquired a wholly different sense in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-02-10
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:481 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350278585

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David Konstan is Professor of Classics at New York University, USA. Among his books are Friendship in the Classical World (1997), Pity Transformed (2001), The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks (2006), Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea (2010) and In the Orbit of Love: Affection in Ancient Greece and Rome (2018). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

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[A] book that should be read by anyone who is interested in Judaism and, above all, in ancient Christianity ... [An] essential book for the history of religions.

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Preface and AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: The Greco-Roman World: The Unwritten Laws of the GodsChapter 2: The Hebrew Bible: Chasing after Foreign GodsChapter 3: The New Testament: Jesus’ Sense of SinChapter 4: The Church Fathers and the Rabbis: The Transformation of SinA Final Word