Buchumschlag
The origin of sin: Greece and Rome, early Judaism and Christianity
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Bibliographische Detailangaben
Beteilige Person: Konstan, David 1940-2024 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury Academic 2022
Schlagwörter:
Geschichte
Sündenlehre
Frühchristentum
Frühjudentum
Sünde
Religion
Ethik
Antike
Griechenland > Altertum
Römisches Reich
Sin
Sin / Biblical teaching
Sin / Christianity / History of doctrines
Links:http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=033268296&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
Abstract:The Greco-Roman World: The Unwritten Laws of the Gods -- The Hebrew Bible: Chasing after Foreign Gods -- The New Testament: Jesus' Sense of Sin -- The Church Fathers and the Rabbis: The Transformation of Sin
"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 e 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 Graeco-Roman conceptions, but acquired a wholly different sense in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. The Hebrew word hata', rather than denoting just any offense against divine injunctions, refers more narrowly to the violation of the covenant, which takes the form of chasing after foreign gods. As such, it pertains above all to the Israelites, who alone are parties to the covenant. Those who have fallen away can earn forgiveness by repenting of their error and confessing before God - a paradigmatic script for sin and its remission that is entirely absent from the Greco-Roman tradition. The Greek word hamartia again reflects the tripartite structure of sin: an offense, a change of heart, and salvation. In the New Testament, however, and above all in the Gospels, sin is not a falling away from God, but rather a failure to turn to Jesus. Confession and repentance give way, in the Gospels, to the idea of conversion. This Biblical idea of sin was interpreted and largely transformed by later commentators in the early Jewish and Christian traditions, acquiring the more general sense of an offense against God's laws that it retains today"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Umfang:xv, 198 Seiten
ISBN:9781350278592
9781350278585

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