Philo and Paul among the Sophists : Alexandrian and Corinthian Responses to a Julio-Claudian Movement,9780802839770

Philo and Paul among the Sophists : Alexandrian and Corinthian Responses to a Julio-Claudian Movement

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ISBN13: 9780802839770
ISBN10: 0802839770
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Pub. Date: 2001-11-01
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Summary

In this highly acclaimed work, Bruce Winter gathers for the first time all the available evidence on the first-century sophistic movement from two major centers of learning in the East. Together with the writings of the contemporary Hellenistic Jews, Philo and Paul, he discusses all the protagonists and antagonists of this movement in Alexandria and Corinth. This study provides important insights into the problems that this elitist movement created for Diaspora Jews in Alexandria and for Christians in Corinth. It also traces the origins of the Second Sophistic to the reign of Nero. Substantially revised and including a new foreword by G. W. Bowersock, this volume is also supported by a web site -- www.sophists.info -- featuring additional archaeological evidence and photographs.

Author Biography

Bruce W. Winter is director of the Institute of Early Christianity in the Graeco-Roman World, Tyndale House, Cambridge, a Fellow of St. Edmund's College, and a member of the Divinity Faculty, University of Cambridge

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
G. W. Bowersock
Preface to the Second Edition x
Preface to the First Edition xiv
Abbreviations xvi
Introduction 1(1)
The purpose of this book
1(2)
The sophists
3(2)
Philo among the Alexandrian sophists
5(2)
Paul among the Corinthian sophists
7(2)
Recent sophistic and rhetorical studies
9(4)
The structure of this book
13(2)
PART I THE ALEXANDRIAN SOPHISTS 15(94)
Introduction to Part I
17(2)
A student among the Alexandrian sophists
19(21)
The shortage of sophists' schools
20(4)
A private tutor in rhetoric as an alternative
24(6)
The public declaimers
30(4)
The status of students of the sophists
34(4)
Conclusion
38(2)
Dio and the Alexandrian sophistic leaders
40(19)
The conflict in Alexandria
40(2)
Dio as Alexandria's counsellor and saviour
42(2)
Philosophers as former leaders in politeia
44(4)
Orators, poets and sophists as present leaders in politeia
48(6)
Orators and sophists in Dio's corpus
54(4)
Conclusion
58(1)
Who are Philo's sophists?
59(21)
Identifying Philo's sophists
59(3)
Present---day orators and sophists in Contempl. 31
62(4)
The throng of sophists in Agr. 136
66(3)
Sophists and Sceptics and Academic philosophers in QG III. 33
69(3)
Sophists and Peripatetics, Stoics, Epicureans etc. in Congr. 67
72(3)
Sophists and the ancient poets Homer and Hesiod in Op. 157
75(3)
Conclusion
78(2)
Philo's critique of the Alexandrian sophistic tradition
80(15)
The sophistic misuse of paideia for vice
81(7)
The sophistic misuse of paideia for deception
88(3)
The sophistic misuse of paideia for personal gain
91(3)
Conclusion
94(1)
Philo among the sophists
95(14)
Philo as orator and debater
95(5)
Debating with and defeating the sophists
100(6)
General conclusions
106(3)
PART II THE CORINTHIAN SOPHISTS 109(147)
Introduction to Part II
111(2)
Epictetus and the Corinthian student of the sophists
113(10)
Epictetus and the sophists
113(5)
Epictetus and sophistic declamations
118(3)
Conclusion
121(2)
Dio and Plutarch among the Corinthian sophists
123(18)
Dio among the Corinthian sophists
123(6)
Favorinus, the sophist, in Corinth
129(5)
Herodes Atticus, the sophist and benefactor of Corinth
134(4)
Plutarch among the Corinthian sophists
138(2)
Conclusion
140(1)
Paul and sophistic conventions
141(39)
Introduction
141(2)
Paul's anti-sophistic coming and conduct: 1 Corinthians 2.1--5; 9
143(29)
The Corinthians' sophistic response: 1 Corinthians 1.12, 3.4
172(6)
Conclusion
178(2)
Paul's critique of the Corinthian sophistic tradition
180(23)
The so---called `apologia': 1 Corinthians 1--4
181(2)
Inferiority and sophistic status: 1 Corinthians 1.4--9
183(2)
The idolatry of sophistic imitation: 1 Corinthians 1.10--17a
185(2)
Sophistic boasting: 1 Corinthians 1.17b--31
187(8)
The sophist/disciple boasting and imitation reversed: 1 Corinthians 3.18--23
195(1)
The irony of Paul's `covert allusion', boasting, status, and true imitation: 1 Corinthians 4.6ff.
196(5)
Conclusion
201(2)
Paul among the Christian sophists
203(37)
Introduction
203(1)
The sophistic assessment of Paul as orator and debater: 2 Corinthians 10.10, 11.6, 12.16
204(27)
Paul's assessment of the Christian sophists: 2 Corinthians 10--13
231(6)
Conclusion
237(3)
Conclusions
240(16)
The first-century sophistic movement
240(3)
Philo's and Paul's sophistic opponents
243(2)
The sophistic versus the Gnostic thesis
245(1)
Philo, Paul, and rhetoric
246(6)
Philo and Paul --- towards a comparison
252(2)
Athens and Jerusalem, the Academy and the church
254(2)
Appendix: POxy. 2190 256(5)
Bibliography 261(22)
Index of subjects 283(3)
Index of literary sources 286(10)
Index of non-literary sources 296(2)
Index of authors 298

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