Ancient forgiveness / edited by Charles L. Griswold, David Konstan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Griswold, Charles L., 1951- editor.

Konstan, David, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forgiveness.

Forgiveness--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Forgiveness--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, eminent scholars of classical antiquity and ancient and medieval Judaism and Christianity explore the nature and place of forgiveness in the pre-modern Western world. They discuss whether the concept of forgiveness, as it is often understood today, was absent, or at all events more restricted in scope than has been commonly supposed, and what related ideas (such as clemency or reconciliation) may have taken the place of forgiveness. An introductory chapter reviews the conceptual territory of forgiveness and illuminates the potential breadth of the idea, enumerating the important questions a theory of the subject should explore. The following chapters examine forgiveness in the contexts of classical Greece and Rome; the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, and Moses Maimonides; and the New Testament, the Church Fathers, and Thomas Aquinas.

Contents:

I. The territory philosophically considered

What is forgiveness? / Adam Morton

II. Forgiveness among the Greeks

Assuaging rage : remorse, repentance, and forgiveness in the classical world / David Konstan

Achilles, Psammenitus, and Antigone : forgiveness in Homer and beyond / Page duBois

All in the family : forgiveness and reconciliation in new comedy / Kathryn Gutzwiller

III. Forgiveness among the Romans

The anger of tyrants and the forgiveness of kings / Susanna Morton Braund

Gender and forgiveness in the early Roman empire / Kristina Milnor

"To forgive is divine" : gods as models of forgiveness in late republican and early imperial Rome / Zsuzsanna Várhelyi

IV. Judaic and Christian forgiveness

Mercy, repentance, and forgiveness in ancient Judaism / Michael L. Morgan

A man had two sons : the question of forgiveness in Luke 15 / Peter S. Hawkins

Jesus' conditional forgiveness / Jennifer Wright Knust

Forgiveness in patristic philosophy : the importance of repentance and the centrality of grace / Ilaria L.E. Ramelli

Forgiveness and perfection : Maimonides, Aquinas, and medieval departures from Aristotle / Jonathan Jacobs.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-252) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-22274-5

1-139-17912-8

1-280-77342-1

9786613684196

1-139-18862-3

1-139-18502-0

1-139-18271-4

1-139-18734-1

1-139-18993-X

0-511-97865-0

OCLC:

776983652