The challenge of Homer school, pagan poets and early Christianity /

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Main Author: Sandnes, Karl Olav, 1954-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : T & T Clark, c2009.
Series:Library of New Testament studies ; 400.
Library of New Testament studies. Early Christianity in context.
T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • School and encyclical education in antiquity. Introduction ; School in the Graeco-Roman world ; The pivotal role of Homer ; Knowledge and formation : the insufficiency of encyclical studies ; Philo of Alexandria : a Hellenistic Jew on Greek education ; Summary of part 1
  • The Christian agôn over encyclical studies in the first four centuries CE. Justin Martyr, his student Tatian and two Ps.Justins ; The apostolic tradition : prohibited occupations ; The teaching of the apostles (Didaskalia apostolorum) and the Syriac tradition : 'avoid all the books of the Gentiles' ; Tertullian : learning but not teaching encyclical studies ; Clement and Origen : Christian teachers in Alexandria ; Flavius Claudius Julianus : emperor and apostate : Christian teachers are immoral ; The Cappadocian fathers ; Jerome : an ascetic addicted to Greek learning ; Augustine : liberal studies : a window on the relationship between Greek culture and Christian faith ; Summary of part 2
  • Looking back to the New Testament. The New Testament and encyclical studies ; Conclusion.