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

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TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 260 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781139189934
113918993X

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ancient forgiveness.DDC classification:

179/.9 22

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BJ1476 .A45 2012eb

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PHI002000

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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.

Summary: "In this book, twelve 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"-- Provided by publisher

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"In this book, twelve 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"-- Provided by publisher