The Origin of Sin
Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity
Where did the idea of sin arise from? In this meticulously argued book, David Konstan takes a close look at classical Greek and Roman texts, as well as the Bible and early Judaic and Christian writings, and argues that the fundamental idea of sin arose in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, although this original meaning was obscured in later Jewish and Christian interpretations. Through close philological examination of the words for sin, in particular the Hebrew hata' and the Greek hamartia, he traces their uses over the centuries in four chapters, and concludes that the common modern definition of sin as a violation of divine law indee…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-350-27861-5
- EAN: 9781350278615
- Produktnummer: 37963358
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
David Konstan is Professor of Classics at New York University, USA.
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