Titus 1,12: Epimenides, Ancient Christian Scholars, Zeus's Death, and the Cretan Paradox
Many logicians and exegetes have read Titus 1,12 as an example of the Liar's Paradox without paying sufficient attention to the nature of ancient oracular utterance. Instead of reading the verse as a logical puzzle, it should be read from its ancient context in the history of religions - a cont...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2021
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Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum
Year: 2021, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 367-394 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Titusbrief 1,12
/ Epimenides, Cretensis 6 BC. Jh.
/ Išoʿdad, Hdatta, Bischof
/ Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius 345-420
/ Zeus, God
/ Death
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| IxTheo Classification: | BE Greco-Roman religions CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations HC New Testament KAA Church history KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
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B Cretan Paradox B Death of Zeus B Epimenides B Titus 1 |
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