The Origin of Sin : Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity

by David Konstan

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Format Paperback / Softback

ISBN-10 1350278599

ISBN-13 9781350278592

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint Bloomsbury Academic

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 10th, 2022

Print length 216 Pages

Weight 334 grams

Dimensions 15.60 x 23.40 x 1.60 cms

Product Classification: Ancient history: to c 500 CE Ethics & moral philosophy Christianity Ancient religions & mythologies

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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 indeed has antecedents in classical Greco-Roman conceptions, but acquired a wholly different sense in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament.

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 indeed has antecedents in classical Greco-Roman conceptions, but acquired a wholly different sense in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament.

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