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Self, Self-Fashioning and Individuality in Late Antiquity : New Perspecives / edited by Maren R. Niehoff and Joshua Levinson.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Niehoff, Maren.
Contributor:
Levinson, Joshua.
ProQuest ebook central.
Series:
Culture, religion, and politics in the Greco-Roman world ; 4.
Culture, Religion, and Politics in the Greco-Roman World ; v. 4
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Self--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.
Self.
Self--Religious aspects--History--To 1500.
Self--Religious aspects.
History.
Mediterranean Region.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (569 pages).
polychrome
Place of Publication:
Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, [2019]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Cover
Titel
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Maren R. Niehoff: Fashioning this Volume
Constructing the Self
David Lambert: "Desire" Enacted in the Wilderness: Problems in the History of the Self and Bible Translation
Matthew Roller: Selfhood, Exemplarity, and Cicero's Four Personae: On Constructing Your Self after Your Model and Your Model after Your Self
Margaret Graver: Interiority and Freedom in Seneca's De Beneficiis: Acts of Kindness and the Perfected Will
Gretchen Reydams-Schils: How to Become Like God and Remain Oneself
Karen L. King: Becoming Fully Human: Contours and Expressions of the Self according to the Gospel of Mary
Yair Furstenberg: Rabbinic Responses to Greco-Roman Ethics of Self-Formation in Tractate Avot
Charles M. Stang: The Doubled Self and the Worship of the Gods
Joshua Levinson: The Divided Subject: Representing Modes of Consciousness in Rabbinic Midrash
Laura Nasrallah: The Worshipping Self, the Self in Light
Edward Watts: The Senses, the Self, and the Christian Roman Imperial Subject: Hagia Sophia as a Space of Directed Interiority
Self-Fashioning
Catharine Edwards: The Epistolographic Self: The Role of the Individual in Seneca's Letters
Eve-Marie Becker: Paul's Epistolary Self in and around Philippians
Ilaria L.E. Ramelli: Autobiographical Self-Fashioning in Origen
Maren R. Niehoff: A Hybrid Self: Rabbi Abbahu in Legal Debates in Caesarea
Irmgard Männlein-Robert: Move Your Self: Mobility and Migration of Greek Intellectuals to Rome
Reuven Kiperwasser: Narrating the Self: Tales of Rabbi Zeira's Arrival to the Land of Israel
Self and Individual in Society
Clifford Ando: Self, Society, Individual, and Person in Roman Law
Jörg Rüpke: Urban Selves: Individualization in Roman Cities
Sarit Kattan Gribetz: Constructions of the Self through Time: Gender, Text, Embodiment, Experience
Mira Balberg: The Subject Supposed to Forget: Rabbinic Formations of the Legal Self
Ishay Rosen-Zvi: Two Midrashic Selves: Between Origen and the Mekhilta
Alfons Fürst: Individuality and Self-Agency: The Self in Origen's Metaphysics of Freedom
Tobias Nicklas: Constructing Individual Selves within Social Hierarchies: The Letters of Copres and Synesios
Notes:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Other Format:
Print version: Niehoff, Maren R. Self, Self-Fashioning and Individuality in Late Antiquity : New Perspecives.
ISBN:
3161589912
9783161589911
Publisher Number:
99989830533
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