Johan C. Thom – författare

Die Abhandlung De mundo (Über den Kosmos), die auf das 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr. datiert wird, bietet eine Kosmologie in peripatetischer Tradition dar, wobei platonische und stoische Denkfiguren mit einfließen. Alle Geschehnisse im Kosmos werden der Herrschaft eines allmächtigen Gottes untergeordnet. Aus diesem Grund ist das Werk paradigmatisch für philosophische und religiöse Konzepte der frühen römischen Kaiserzeit, die Berührungspunkte mit dem entstehenden Christentum aufweisen. Der Band enthält den griechischen Text und die Übersetzung von De mundo, sowie erläuternde Essays über Sprache und Stil, Geographie, Kosmotheologie und Rezeptionsgeschichte.

This book is a commentary on the Pythagorean Golden Verses, a neglected, but once very popular poem of the Hellenistic period. The goal of the poem is to introduce its readers to the basic moral, religious and philosophical doctrines of the Pythagorean sect and to guide them to spiritual maturity.The first part of the book treats still unresolved introductory matters such as the date, authorship, genre, composition, and the historical locus of the poem. This is followed by a text with translation on facing pages, and a detailed commentary containing a wealth of comparative material from the Greco-Roman period, including early Christianity and Judaism.Particularly valuable are the extensive discussions of the moral topoi and religious themes encountered in the poem.

This volume contains a collection of essays in honour of Bernard C. Lategan, a renowned specialist on the modern reception of the New Testament. Besides offering anayses of Lategan’s own contribution to New Testament scholarship, the essays present and discuss interpretations of the New Testament from antiquity through contemporary critical scholarship. Topics covered include hermeneutical issues of historical Jesus research, intertextuality in antiquity, the interpretation of the New Testament in Africa, and the New Testament as literature. The collection thus provides a representative perspective on the diversity of New Testament scholarship in South Africa and elsewhere.