Paul and Seneca within the Ancient Consolation Tradition : : A Comparison / / Alex W. Muir.

• Superior document: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2024
• VerfasserIn: Muir, Alex W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2024.; Novum Testamentum, Supplements ; 193
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 pages)

In this monograph, Alex W. Muir shows how Paul and Seneca were significant contributors to an ancient philosophical and rhetorical tradition of consolation. Each writer's consolatory career is surveyed in turn through close readings of key primary texts: chiefly Seneca's three literary consolations and 'Epistles'; and Paul's letters, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Corinthians, and Philippians. A final comparative dialogue highlights the pair's adaptations and innovations within this tradition.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- ‎Half-Title Page -- ‎Series Title Page -- ‎Title Page -- ‎Copyright Page -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎Chapter 1. Defining Consolation in Antiquity: Traditions and Modes -- ‎1. Consolation: Initial Definitions -- ‎2. Ancient Sources on Consolation -- ‎2.1. Ancient Graeco-Roman Consolation -- ‎2.2. Ancient Jewish Consolation -- ‎3. Consolation as Genre? -- ‎Chapter 2. Comparing Paul and Seneca on Consolation: How and Why -- ‎1. Issues with the Comparative Endeavour -- ‎2. Merits of the Comparative Endeavour -- ‎3. Comparing New Testament Writers with Ancient Philosophers -- ‎4. Comparing Paul and Seneca -- ‎5. Comparing Paul and Seneca on Consolation -- ‎6. The Direction of This Study -- ‎Chapter 3. Consolations from Seneca's Early Career -- ‎1. Introduction -- ‎2. Ad Marciam -- ‎2.1. Exemplary Virtue-Among Women -- ‎2.2. Rhetorical and Political Motives -- ‎2.3. A Consoling Conflagration? -- ‎3. Ad Helviam -- ‎3.1. Present Pains, Present Deaths (Helv. 1-4) -- ‎3.2. Home and Away: Exemplary Exile and Stoic Doctrine (Helv. 5-13) -- ‎3.3. Grief and Exile Transcended (Helv. 14-20) -- ‎4. Ad Polybium -- ‎4.1. Relating to Polybius: Stoic Doctrine? (Polyb. 1-11) -- ‎4.2. Consolation from Caesar? -- ‎4.3. A Failed Consoler? -- ‎5. Summary -- ‎Chapter 4. Consolations from Seneca's Later Career -- ‎1. Introduction -- ‎2. Naturales quaestiones 6 -- ‎3. Epistulae morales -- ‎3.1. Location and Physics -- ‎3.2. Logic and Rhetoric -- ‎3.3. Consolation, Ethics, and the Self -- ‎4. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 5. Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians -- ‎1. Introduction -- ‎2. Comfort and Consolation in Apocalyptic Affliction (1Thessalonians 1) -- ‎3. Paul's Dramatic Entrance in Thessalonica: Mutual Consolation (1Thessalonians 2) -- ‎4. Consolatory Envoys and Networks (1Thessalonians 3).

‎5. Preparation for Consolation (1Thess 4:13) -- ‎6. Consolatory Parousia Narrative (1Thess 4:14-18) -- ‎7. Consolation in Community (1Thess 5:12-14) -- ‎8. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 6. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians -- ‎1. Introduction -- ‎2. Grief on All Sides: From 1Corinthians to 2Corinthians -- ‎3. Consolation from God and the Network of Consolation (2Cor 1:1-11) -- ‎4. Consolation Then Reconciliation for Grief in Corinth (2Cor 1:12-2:11) -- ‎5. Beginnings of an Ekphrasis (2Cor 2:12-17) -- ‎6. Ekphrastic Auto-Consolation (2Cor 4:1-5:5) -- ‎7. Ekphrastic Reconciliation and Exhortation from Consolation (2Cor 5:6-7:4) -- ‎8. The Consolatory Network Developed (2Cor 7:5-16) -- ‎9. Continued Consolation in 2Corinthians 8-13? -- ‎10. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 7. Paul's Letter to the Philippians -- ‎1. Introduction -- ‎2. Phil 1:1-11-From Joyful Memories to Eschatological Paraenesis -- ‎3. Phil 1:12-26: Consolation from Prison -- ‎4. Philippians 1:27-2:5: Comforting the Philippians between Exempla -- ‎5. Phil 2:5-11: Christ's Consolatory Example -- ‎6. Phil 2:12-16: Exhortation for Cosmological Transformation -- ‎7. Phil 2:17-30: Consolation through Exemplary Envoys -- ‎8. Phil 3:1-14: Knowledge Changes Everything? -- ‎9. Phil 3:15-21: Our Progress, Our Belonging, Our Consolation -- ‎10. Phil 4:4-9: Present Joy and Peace-Valedictory Consolation -- ‎11. Phil 4:10-23: The Gift Network Underpinning Consolation -- ‎12. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 8. Comparing Paul's and Seneca's Consolatory Discourses and Narratives -- ‎1. Introduction -- ‎2. Seeking Common Ground: Comparing Seneca's and Paul's Consolatory Discourses -- ‎2.1. Ethics -- ‎2.1.1. Emotions -- ‎2.1.2. Progress in Virtue and Exhortation -- ‎2.1.3. Networks of Consolation and Friendship -- ‎2.2. Physics -- ‎2.2.1. Body -- ‎2.2.2. Cosmos -- ‎2.3. Logic -- ‎2.3.1. Dialectic.

‎2.3.2. Rhetoric: Pathos and Persuasion -- ‎2.3.3. Exemplarity -- ‎3. Establishing Degrees of Difference: Towards Seneca's and Paul's Consolatory Narratives -- ‎3.1. Eschatology: Death and Time in Consolation -- ‎3.2. Theology: Consolation and Becoming like God -- ‎3.3. Towards Paul's and Seneca's Consolatory Narratives -- ‎4. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 9. Conclusion: Paul and Seneca within the Ancient Consolation Tradition -- ‎1. Chief Findings of the Study -- ‎2. Chief Contributions of the Study -- ‎3. Coda -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index of Ancient Sources -- ‎Index of Modern Authors -- ‎Index of Subjects -- Back Cover.