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 trac...

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.