TY - BOOK AU - Hirsch-Luipold,Rainer TI - Plutarch and the New Testament in Their Religio-Philosophical Contexts: Bridging Discourses in the World of the Early Roman Empire T2 - Brill's Plutarch Studies SN - 9789004505070 AV - B603 U1 - 186/.4 23/eng/20220119 PY - 2022/// CY - Leiden; , Boston PB - Brill KW - Plutarch. KW - Bible as literature KW - Bible KW - New Testament KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - History KW - History of Biblical events KW - Jewish nationalism KW - Christian literature, Early KW - History and criticism KW - Church history KW - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Philosophy and religion KW - Greece KW - Platonists N1 - "Three meetings of the CHNT-group at annual meetings of the SBL from 2014-2016 were devoted to the topic of this volume.... A selection of the papers delivered at these meetings are being published in this volume, together with additional contributions."; Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material; Rainer Hirsch-Luipold --; Copyright Page; Rainer Hirsch-Luipold --; Dedication; Rainer Hirsch-Luipold --; Introduction; Rainer Hirsch-Luipold --; Chapter 1 Plutarch and the New Testament: History, Challenges and Perspectives; Rainer Hirsch-Luipold --; Chapter 2 Why Compare Plutarch and the New Testament? The Betz Project and the Form, Function and Limitations of Greco-Roman Parallel Collections; David E. Aune --; Chapter 3 Plutarch's Monotheism and the New Testament; Frederick E. Brenk --; Chapter 4 "God Is the Measure of All Things": Plutarch and Philo on the Benefits of Religious Worship; Zlatko Pleše --; Chapter 5 When East and West Meet: Eastern Religions and Western Philosophy in Philo of Alexandria and Plutarch of Chaeronea; Gregory E. Sterling --; Chapter 6 Philautia , Self-Knowledge, and Oikeiôsis in Philo of Alexandria and Plutarch; Gretchen Reydams-Schils --; Chapter 7 The Relation between Anthropology and Love Ethics in John against the Backdrop of Plutarchan and Philonic Ideas; Athanasios Despotis --; Chapter 8 The Mechanics of Death: Philo's and Plutarch's Views on Human Death as a Backdrop for Paul's Eschatology; Julian Elschenbroich --; Chapter 9 The Logos in Amelius' Fragment on the Gospel of John and Plutarch's De Iside; Ilinca Tanaseanu-Doebler --; Chapter 10 Plutarch's Reception in the Church Fathers; Georgiana Huian --; Chapter 11 Plutarch of Chaeronea, Clement of Alexandria and the Bio- and Technomorphic Aspects of Creation; Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta --; Indexes; Rainer Hirsch-Luipold N2 - How to read Plutarch in the context of New Testament studies? Almost 50 years after the seminal project on the topic led by Hans Dieter Betz, this volume elevates once again the issue's priority. Bridging discourses is a fitting description both of the religio-philosophical spirit of Plutarch, the Platonist philosopher and priest of Apollo at Delphi, and the task of bringing his writings into fruitful dialogue with the writings of the New Testament, Hellenistic Judaism, and Early Christianity. Taken together, these authors constitute the religious Platonism of the early imperial era. Contributions from the fields of New Testament, classics, philosophy, religious studies, and patristics explore various ways of how to establish these bridges UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004505070 ER -