Paul as homo novus (eBook)

Dr. theol. Eve-Marie Becker ist Professorin für Neues Testament an der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät der WWU Münster.

Title Page 4
Copyright 5
Table of Contents 6
Body 8
Preface 8
Eve-Marie Becker and Jacob Mortensen: Paul Among the Homines Novi 10
1. The Heuristics of the Homo Novus Concept 10
1.1. Who was a Homo Novus? Revisiting a Ciceronian Concept 10
1.2. Paul as a Homo Novus? Moving beyond Adolf Deissmann's “Paulus” 12
2. The Outline of this Volume 14
Bibliography 17
I. Epistemic Background: Deissmann's Idea of the Homo Novus and Current Research 20
Andreas Mehl: The Homo Novus in the Society and Political Culture of Rome 22
Bibliography 37
Henriette van der Blom: Cicero's Self-Presentation as a Homo Novus 40
1. Introduction 40
2. Narrative Ego 44
3. Acting in Social, Intellectual and Religious Roles and Interaction with Contemporaries 48
4. Participation in ideological discourses and effect on posterity 51
Bibliography 52
Oda Wischmeyer: Paul: A Homo Novus? 56
1. Adolf Deissmann, Paul as Homo Novus 57
2. Paul as Self-Made Man 62
Bibliography 68
II. Historical Contexts of the Homo Novus: Socio-political Agency and Literary Strategy 72
Christopher Degelmann: A Homo Novus's Self-Fashioning in Practice 74
1. Introduction 74
2. The Circumstances of Cicero's Exile and his Squalor 76
3. Rhetorical or Literary Strategy? The Metelli, One Brother, and their/his Pietas 79
4. A New Man among New Men or: A Cultural Imperative 85
Bibliography 85
Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser: Horace, the Self-Made Poet 88
1. Homo Novus and Self-Made Poet: From Political Label to Literary Trademark 88
2. A Question of Class: Satirical Life, Genre, and Role Choices for the First-Person Narrator 92
2.1. Upward Mobility Within a Class-Based Society 93
2.2. The Satirical Subject and the Homines Novi 94
2.3. Righteous Rise into Exclusive Circles 95
2.4. Moral Self-Confidence and Parental Images 96
2.5. Humble Genre – Humble Persona? Rethinking the Status of Satire 98
3. The Immortal Son of Humble Parents: Lyrical Departures and Literary Endings (Carm. 2.20) 100
3.1. Soaring On the Wings of Poetry: Above and Beyond Human Envy 102
3.2. The Bard in Provocative Dual Shape 103
3.3. Social Relationships Redefined 105
3.4. Poet of World Renown and Denial of Mortality 107
4. Résumé: Literary Variations of the Homo Novus 108
Bibliography 112
Eve-Marie Becker: Paul as Homo Humilis 116
1. Paul: The Humble Letter-Writer 116
2. Paul's Epistolary Concept of Humility in Philippians 118
2.1. The ?????????????? as an Ethical Principle 119
2.2. Narrative Examples 119
2.3. The Apostle's Personal Authority 121
2.4. Paul’s Personal ?????????? 122
2.5. Language of Subordination 122
2.6. A Waiver of Material Prosperity 123
2.7. Genus Humile and Genus Medium 124
3. Results and Perspectives 124
Bibliography 125
Maik Patzelt: Seneca as a Homo Novus 128
1. The self, the Self, and the selves. A Difficult Situation and a Restart 128
2. Approaching the Homo Novus as a Role-Model and Representation 132
3. The Self: The God, the gods and the Sage 140
4. Seneca's Role Model Exceeding Representation 145
5. Conclusion and Outline: Seneca as Homo Novus in his Letters 149
Bibliography 151
Andreas Mehl: Tacitus's Self-Configuration as an Historian 156
Bibliography 175
Uta Heil: Athanasius of Alexandria 178
1. Introduction 178
2. Athanasius as Teacher 182
2.1. General Remarks 182
2.2. 39th Festal Letter 183
2.3. A Letter to the Monks 186
2.4. Tenth Festal Letter 188
3. Athanasius as Martyr 189
3.1. Encyclical Letter 189
3.2. Defense of his Flight 191
4. Summary Remarks 193
Bibliography 194
III. Anthropological Transformations: From the Concept of the Homo Novus to the Notion of the “New Man” 198
Lauri Thurén: The New Person in Paul 200
1. The Jewish Cicero? 200
2. From Nobilis to Novus 202
3. Problems with the Public Image 203
4. The Narrative Ego 203
5. Who is “I”? 204
6. Paul the Rhetorician 206
7. Resolving the Bone of Contention in Paul's Theology 208
8. What Makes the New Person Different? 209
9. Conclusion 211
Bibliography 212
René Falkenberg: Fall and Rise of Adam 216
1. Introduction 216
2. Origin of Paul's Adam/Christ Myth in Jewish Sources? 219
3. Origin of Paul's Adam/Christ Myth in the Apocalypse of Moses 220
4. Paul's Adam/Christ Myth in Romans 227
5. Paul's Adam/Christ Myth in First Corinthians 228
6. Conclusion: Gattung and Sitz im Leben of Paul's Adam/Christ Myth 231
Bibliography 232
Tobias Uhle: Renewal in Seneca's Epistulae Morales 236
1. Lucilius's Self-Improvement by Means of Continual Self-Scrutiny 238
2. The Teacher's Own Self-Transformation 241
3. The Inconsistent Persona of the Teacher in Seneca's Letters 243
4. Conclusions and Possible Implications 245
4.1. Progress as a Continuous but Reversible Process 246
4.2. Progress as Overcoming the Personal Self (or Selves) 247
Bibliography 249
Therese Fuhrer: Orator Humilis 252
1. Terminology and Research Question 252
2. The Sermo Humilis 255
3. Delivery (actio) 256
4. On the Modelling of the Speaker's Homiletic Self as Orator Humilis 257
5. The Bishop and the Penitents: Staging the Call to Contrition and Humility (Serm. 232.8) 259
6. The Functionalisation of the Role of the Orator Humilis 263
Bibliography 264
IV. Reception Processes: Suppressing and Recovering the Homo Novus 268
Henriette van der Blom: The Reception of Cicero's Self-Presentation in the Early Imperial Period 270
1. Introduction 270
2. The Reception of Cicero the Homo Novus: Speeches Available 271
3. The Reception of Cicero the Homo Novus: Imperial Reactions 278
4. Novitas in the Early Imperial Period: Cicero's Exemplum 286
Bibliography 288
Christopher Mount: Spirit Possession in Christ Cults Associated with Paul and Roman Discourses of Political Power 292
1. 296
2. 301
3. 308
4. 313
Bibliography 313
Johanna Schumm: Being New as Being Text 316
1. Introduction 316
2. The Homo Novus as Imitator 318
3. The Homo Novus Filled with Alterity 321
3.1. Claiming that the Confessional Subject is Heterogeneous 321
3.2. Performing the Heterogeneity of the Subject 325
3.2.1. Mothers of Homines Novi 325
3.2.2. The Quest 327
3.2.3. The Obedience of the Author 329
4. Conclusion 331
Bibliography 333
List of Contributors 336
Indices 338
Authors and persons (ancient and modern) 344
Subjects 348