Paul as Homo Novus : : authorial strategies of self-fashioning in light of a Ciceronian term / / Eve-Marie Becker, Jacob Mortensen (editors).

• Superior document: Studia Aarhusiana Neotestamentica ; Volume 6
• TeilnehmendeR: Mortensen, Jacob,; Becker, Eve-Marie,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2018]
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Aarhusiana Neotestamentica ; Volume 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 pages).

20ths century research in St. Paul is widely impacted by Adolf Deissmann's prominent view on the apostle as a "homo novus" (1911). But where does this concept originate from, and what does it imply? This collection of articles does not only re-evaluate Deissmann's concept by tracing it back to its historical and socio-political origins in Cicero and exploring how authors from (early) Imperial Time perceive and transform the homo novus paradigm by diverse modes and strategies of literary self-fashioning. Scholars ranging the fields of New Testament Studies, Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Patristics, and Comparative Literature also examine how the Ciceronian paradigm was early on transformed, disseminated, and applied as a literary concept and an authorial topos of self-molding. One of the leading questions throughout the volume thus is: How do authors like Cicero, Horace, Paul, Tacitus, Seneca, Athanasius, and Augustine fashion themselves in accordance to or in difference from the idea of being a "new man"? It is argued that by means of literary self-configuration, indeed, some of these writers - such as Paul and Augustine - want to appear as "new men" by either altering traditional social, moral, religious, or political roles, or by creating new patterns of social behavior and religious self-understanding.

Table of Contents

Paul Among the Homines Novi.Introduction to the Volume / Eve-Marie Becker, Jacob Mortensen. I. Epistemic background: Deissmann's idea of the homo novus and current research. The homo novus in the society and political culture of Rome / Andreas Mehl -- Cicero's self-presentation as a homo novus / Henriette van der Blom -- Paul : a homo novus? Adolf Deissmann's interpretation of Paul revisited / Oda Wischmeyer. II. Historical contexts of the homo novus : socio-political agency and literary strategy. A homo novus's self-fashioning in practice. The case of Cicero's Squalor / Christopher Degelmann -- Horace, the self-made poet. How to promote your literary career (Sat. 1.6; Carm. 2.20) / Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser -- Paul as homo humilis / Eve-Marie Becker -- Seneca as a homo novus. Seneca's strategies of self-fashioning / Maik Patzelt -- Tacitus's self-configuration as an historian / Andreas Mehl -- Athanasius of Alexandria. Teacher and martyr of the Christian church / Uta Heil. III. Anthropological transformations : from the concept of the homo novus to the notion of the "New Man". The new person in Paul / Lauri Thurén -- Fall and rise of Adam. The apocalypse of Moses and the Adam/Christ myth of Paul / René Falkenberg -- Renewal in Seneca's Epistulae Morales. Transformation(s) of the Self? / Tobias Uhle -- Orator Humilis. Augustine's rhetorical impression management / Therese Fuhrer. IV. Reception processes : suppressing and recovering the homo novus. The reception of Cicero's self-presentation in the early imperial period / Henriette van der Blom -- Spirit possession in Christ cults associated with Paul and Roman discourses of political power / Christopher Mount -- Being new as being text. The literary constitution of being new in Augustine's Confessiones / Johanna Schumm.