The ethics of obscene speech in early Christianity and its environment

The ethics of obscene speech in early Christianity and its environment / by Jeremy F. Hultin.

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This book aims to contextualize early Christian rhetoric about foul language by asking such questions as: Where was foul language encountered? What were the conventional arguments for avoiding (or for using) obscene words? How would the avoidance of such speech have been interpreted by others? A car...

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Superior document:Supplements to Novum Testamentum, v. 128
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Hultin, Jeremy F.
Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 128.
Physical Description:1 online resource (292 pages)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • A survey of foul language in the ancient world
  • What is foul language?
  • Plato and Aristotle on foul language
  • Plato and the dangers of mimesis
  • Aristotle and the bounds of humor
  • Abuse
  • Laws against slander
  • Religious rites
  • Excursus : the language of some love charms
  • Comedy
  • New forms of comic drama
  • Literary obscenities
  • Epigram
  • Tales of sexual adventures and sex manuals
  • Ovid's culpa
  • Speech, character, and self-definition
  • Speech as it relates to character
  • Speech as it defined specific groups
  • Cynics and shameless speech
  • Stoics
  • The linguistic roots of the stoic ethics of foul language
  • Excursus : Bryson the Megarian
  • Changes in stoic (and cynic) views of obscene speech
  • Jewish scripture and earliest Christianity
  • Prophetic scatology
  • Wisdom literature and Ben Sirach
  • Jesus
  • James
  • Didache 3:3 and the two ways
  • Paul
  • Galatians 5:12
  • Philippians 3:8: [Greek text]
  • Colossians and Ephesians
  • Colossians 3:8
  • Colossians 4:6 : "season your speech with salt"
  • Ephesians
  • Exegesis of Ephesians 5:3-14
  • "Let them not even be named among you" (Eph 5:3)
  • "Shameful even to mention" (Eph 5:12)
  • Speech rules in 1QS
  • Profaning a sanctum
  • Not fitting for holy ones
  • Speech and Christian identities
  • Clement of Alexandria on foul language
  • The divine paedagogue and Christian manners
  • On foul language
  • Excursus : Clement and the Didache
  • A "deeper logos" about foul language
  • Comparing Clement.

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