The divine father : religious and philosophical concepts of divine parenthood in antiquity / edited by Felix Albrecht and Reinhard Feldmeier.

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Language
  • English
  • German
Published/​Created
  • Leiden : Brill, 2014.
  • ©2014
Description
vi, 433 pages ; 25 cm.

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"The present volume is devoted to the theme of 'Divine Father' in ancient traditions. It brings together proceedings of a conference under the same title, held in Göttingen in September 2011. Selected articles by well-known scholars focus on religious and philosophical concepts of divine parenthood in antiquity, from the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism (the Dead Sea Scrolls, Targums, Philo and Josephus) to the field of the New Testament. In addition, the volume deals with the designation of deity as 'father' or 'mother' from the broad spectrum of ancient Egypt and classical antiquity (Homer, Hesiod, Plato, and its reception) to late antiquity (Plotinus and Porphyry)"--Page [4] of cover.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Language note
Text in English and German.
Contents
  • Introduction / Reinhard Feldmeier
  • pt. 1. Pagan religions. Father of the fathers, mother of the mothers, god as father (and mother) in ancient Egypt / Alexandra von Lieven
  • "Vater Zeus" im griechischen Epos / Heinz-Günther Nesselrath
  • Gott als Vater und Schöpfer: zur Rezeption von Timaios 28c3-5 bei einigen Platonikern / Franco Ferrari
  • pt. 2. Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism. The "father" of the Old Testament and its history / Hermann Spieckermann
  • Divine sonship in the book of Jubilees / Jacques van Ruiten
  • God as father in texts from Qumran / Lutz Doering
  • God as father in the Pentateuchal Targumim / Robert Hayward
  • "Vater Gott und seine Kinder und Frauen" / Beatrice Wyss
  • God the father in Flavius Josephus / Mladen Popović
  • pt. 3. New Testament. "Vater ...": zur Bedeutung der Anrede Gottes als Vater in den Gebeten der Jesusüberlieferung / Florian Wilk
  • Is God the father of Jews only, or also of gentiles? The peculiar shape of Paul's "universalism" / Ross Wagner
  • Kyrios Christos und Gottvater: Christi Herrschaft und Gottes Vaterschaft im Philipperhymnus / Reinhard Feldmeier
  • Dominus Deus, Pater Omnipotens: die göttlichen Verheissungen von 2Kor 6,16-18 / Felix Albrecht
  • The divine father of the universe from the Presocratics to Celsus: the Graeco-Roman background to the "father of all" in Paul's letter to the Ephesians / George H. van Kooten
  • God the father and other parents in the New Testament / Jane Heath
  • pt. 4. Late antiquity. The divine father in the Gospel of Truth (NHC I,3): God as causa efficiens and causa finalis / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
  • Gott als Vater bei Plotin und Porphyrios / Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler.
ISBN
  • 9789004256255 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9004256253 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
2013040603
OCLC
864429108
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