The mother in 4 Maccabees - an example of rational choice in religion
The focus of this paper falls on the mother as the personification of a pious acting according to the λογισμός. This concept, one of the core ideas of 4 Maccabees, must be understood in terms of economic calculating, therefore indicating that pious reason implies a kind of cost-benefit analysis. The...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2008
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Journal for semitics
Year: 2008, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 96-113 |
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| Summary: | The focus of this paper falls on the mother as the personification of a pious acting according to the λογισμός. This concept, one of the core ideas of 4 Maccabees, must be understood in terms of economic calculating, therefore indicating that pious reason implies a kind of cost-benefit analysis. The mother in the said text now functions as a paradigm of such analysis, offering her sons and her life (costs) to receive them back from God in eternity (benefits). |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for semitics
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10520/EJC101086 |
