The Social Context of Paul's Ministry: Tentmaking and Apostleship

The social context of Paul's ministry: Tentmaking and apostleship

Religion & Spirituality

Hock, Ronald F.

Christian Books & Bibles

Fortress Press

Social Context of Paul's Ministry, The [Paperback] [Feb 02, 1995] Hock, Ronald F

The Chreia in Ancient Rhetoric: The Progymnasmata (GRAECO-ROMAN RELIGION SERIES) (English, Ancient Greek and Latin Edition)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Society of Biblical Literature

Reading, writing an inflected language, and composing an argument were among the skills taught in Greco-Roman schools. At all three curricular levels students developed these skills by learning how to use a literary form known as the chreia, or anecdote. Beginners at the primary level learned to read and write by copying different examples of the chreia. Students at the secondary level used it to learn how to decline nouns and conjugate verbs and form them into grammatically correct sentences. Advanced students learned how to elaborate a simple chreia into an eight-paragraph essay that argued for the truth of whatever saying or action was celebrated in the chreia. This volume includes the main texts of the Progymnasmata, rhetorical works dealing with the chreia. Each is presented with the Greek or Latin text, an English translation, introductory notes, and commentary. A general introduction to the chreia, a catalog of ancient chreiai, an index nominum, and a bibliography are also included in this important work for scholars of ancient literature, rhetoric, history of philosophy, and education.

The Chreia in Ancient Rhetoric: Volume I: The Progymnasmata

Reference

Sanderson Books Limited

An English translation of a controversial second century document, Protevangelium Jacobi (Infancy Gospel of James), details the life of Mary and is accommpanied by a discussion of the text's origin and contents

The Life of Mary and Birth of Jesus: The Ancient Infancy Gospel of James

Ulysses Pr

A professor of religion at the University of Southern California reveals the existence of a gospel of Mary that was known to early Christians but later suppressed by the Church, but not before some of its startling revelations filtered into medieval art and Church tradition. Reprint.

The Banned Book of Mary: How Her Story Was Suppressed by the Church and Hidden in Art for Centuries

Ulysses Press

Reading, writing an inflected language, and composing an argument were among the skills taught in Greco-Roman schools. At all three curricular levels students developed these skills by learning how to use a literary form known as the chreia, or anecdote. Beginners at the primary level learned to read and write by copying different examples of the chreia. Students at the secondary level used it to learn how to decline nouns and conjugate verbs and form them into grammatically correct sentences. Advanced students learned how to elaborate a simple chreia into an eight-paragraph essay that argued for the truth of whatever saying or action was celebrated in the chreia. This volume incorporates thirty-six texts, most translated for the first time, that illustrate the use of the chreia at all three levels, a use that can be documented from the first century on through late antiquity and the Byzantine world. It demonstrates that people with all levels of education were intimately familiar with this important literary form, which not only preserves the wit and wisdom of famous philosophers, orators, kings, and poets but also explains its pervasive and enduring use in ancient literature.

The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric: Classroom Exercises (Writings from the Greco-roman World)

History

Ancient Civilizations

UNKNO

The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric: Commentaries on Aphthonius's Progymnasmata (Writings from the Greco-Roman World)

This book provides the first translations in English and a preliminary analysis of the commentaries on the chreia chapter in Aphthoniuss standard Progymnasmata, a classroom guide on composition. The chreia, or anecdote, was a popular form that preserved the wisdom of philosophers, kings, generals, and sophists. Aphthonius used the chreia to provide instructions on how to construct an argument and to confirm the validity of the chreia by means of an eight-paragraph essay. His treatment of this classroom exercise, however, was so brief that commentators needed to clarify, explain, and supplement what he had written as well as to situate the chreia as preparation for the study of rhetoricthe kinds of public speeches and the parts of a speech. By means of these Byzantine commentaries, we can thus see more clearly how this important form and its confirmation were taught in classrooms for over a thousand years.

The Infancy Gospels of James and Thomas (Scholars Bible)

Polebridge Press

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