Paraenesis and the Concept of God According to Oratio XII (Olympikos) of Dio of Prusa

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. What is Paraenesis?
5. Paraenesis in the New Testament. An Exercise in Conceptuality 13
6. The Concept of Paraenesis 47
7. Was Paraenesis for Beginners? 73
8. Paraenesis in Light of Protrepsis. Troubling the Typical Dichotomy 113
9. Part II. Paraenesis in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World
10. The Paraenesis of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. Between Torah and Jewish Wisdom 157
11. Four Maccabees: A Paraenetic Address? 191
12. Paraenesis and the Concept of God According to Oratio XII (Olympikos) of Dio of Prusa 217
13. Part III. Paraenesis in the New Testament
14. “Brotherly Advice”. Christian Siblingship and New Testament Paraenesis 237
15. Paraenesis in Pauline Scholarship and in Paul – An Intricate Relationship 267
16. Paraenesis in the Epistle to Titus 297
17. Paraenesis or Paraclesis – Hebrews as a Test Case 319
18. Motivation as the Core of Paraenesis – Remarks on Peter and Paul as Persuaders 353
19. Revised Conventions in Early Christian Paraenesis – “Working Good” in 1 Peter as an Example 373
20. Is There Paraenesis in 1 John? 405
21. Part IV. Early Christian Paraenesis after the New Testament
22. The Rhetoric of Moral Exhortation in Clement’s Pedagogue 433
23. Parainesis as an Ancient Genre-Designation. The Case of the ‘Euthalian Apparatus’ and the ‘Affiliated Argumenta’ 467
24. Wisdom, Paraenesis and the Roots of Monasticism 521
25. Bibliography 535
26. Select Index of Ancient Literature 579
27. Index of Personal Names 601
28. Index of Subjects 613