Letters and Communities

Letters and Communities

Studies in the Socio-Political Dimensions of Ancient Epistolography

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Oxford University Press

08/2018

384

Dura

Inglês

9780198804208

15 a 20 dias

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Frontmatter List of Contributors 0: Paola Ceccarelli, Lutz Doering, Thorsten Foegen, and Ingo Gildenhard: Introduction A: Theory and Practice of Epistolary Communication 1: Thorsten Foegen: Ancient Approaches to Letter-Writing and the Configuration of Communities through Epistles 2: Bianca-Jeanette Schroeder: Couriers and Conventions in Cicero's Epistolary Network B: Configurations of Power and Epistolary Communication: From Greece to Rome 3: Sian Lewis: Tyrants, Letters, and Legitimacy 4: Manuela Mari: Powers in Dialogue: The Letters and diagrammata of Macedonian Kings to Local Communities 5: Paola Ceccarelli: Letters and Decrees: Diplomatic Protocols in the Hellenistic Period 6: Robin Osborne: Letters, Diplomacy, and the Roman Conquest of Greece 7: Ingo Gildenhard: A Republic in Letters: Epistolary Communities in Cicero s Correspondence, 49-43 BCE C: Letters and Communities in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 8: Sebastian Gratz: The Literary and Ideological Character of the Letters in Ezra 4-7 9: Philip Alexander: 'From me, Jerusalem, the Holy City, to you Alexandria in Egypt, my Sister ....' (Bavli Sanhedrin 107b): The Role of Letters in Power Relations between 'Centre' and 'Periphery' in Judaism in the Hellenistic, Roman, and Early Islamic Periods 10: Lutz Doering: Configuring Addressee Communities in Ancient Jewish Letters: The Case of the Epistle of Baruch (2 Baruch 78-86) 11: John M. G. Barclay: The Letters of Paul and the Construction of Early Christian Networks 12: Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr: The Communities Configured in the Letter of James D: Envoi 13: Catharine Edwards: Conversing with the Absent, Corresponding with the Dead: Friendship and Philosophical Community in Seneca's Letters Endmatter General Index Index locorum Index of Authors