Warum zitieren frühchristliche Autoren pagane Texte?: zur Entstehung und Ausformung einer literarischen Tradition
How did it happen that 2ndcentury Christian authors often cited or alluded to pagan literature? To answer this question, the study examines their works together with those of their predecessors. It shows that the literary practice of quoting pagan texts had strong roots in Jewish-Hellenistic writing...
| Summary: | How did it happen that 2ndcentury Christian authors often cited or alluded to pagan literature? To answer this question, the study examines their works together with those of their predecessors. It shows that the literary practice of quoting pagan texts had strong roots in Jewish-Hellenistic writings as well as in some New Testament texts. Vadim Wittkowsky, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. <!doctype html public ""-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en""> <html><head> <meta content=""text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"" http-equiv=content-type> <meta name=generator content=""mshtml 8.00.6001.23644""></head> <body> <P>How did it happen that 2<SUP>nd</SUP> century Christian authors often cited or alluded to pagan literature? To answer this question, the study examines their works together with those of their predecessors. It shows that the literary practice of quoting pagan texts had strong roots in Jewish-Hellenistic writings as well as in some New Testament texts.</P></body></html> |
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| ISBN: | 3110430967 |