“Our políteuma Belongs in Heaven” (Phil 3:20): Comparing Paul’s and Seneca’s Narratives of Consolation
This article argues that Paul’s narrative about collective πολίτευμα in heaven (Phil 3:20) constitutes a moment of climactic consolation in the letter to the Philippians. This position is reached through an extended comparison with Seneca’s On Consolation to Mother Helvia (Ad Helviam). It emerges th...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Brill
2022
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Novum Testamentum
Año: 2022, Volumen: 64, Número: 2, Páginas: 249-266 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Bibel. Philipperbrief 3,20
/ Comparación (Motivo)
/ Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, Philosophus -65, Consolatio ad Helviam
/ politeuma
/ Consuelo (Motivo)
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | HC Nuevo Testamento VA Filosofía |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Comparison
B πολίτευμα B Senecas (Indios) B Consolation B Phil 3:20 |
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| Sumario: | This article argues that Paul’s narrative about collective πολίτευμα in heaven (Phil 3:20) constitutes a moment of climactic consolation in the letter to the Philippians. This position is reached through an extended comparison with Seneca’s On Consolation to Mother Helvia (Ad Helviam). It emerges that similar narratives of consolation are constructed in the Ad Helviam and Phil 3:15–21. In both texts, adversity is recognised and rationalised, before it is defied then transcended through rhetorical and cosmological arguments. There are, however, also differences owing to Paul’s and Seneca’s different contexts: in particular, the threat of certain Judaizing opponents to Paul’s gospel in Philippi. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5365 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Novum Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10011 |