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The Seneca–Paul Correspondence
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31 October 2027
RELIGION / Biblical Studies / New Testament, Neues Testament, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, RELIGION / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Antike griechische und römische Philosophie, Geschichte der Religion, Antike griechische und römische Literatur
INTRODUCTION: Pseudepigraphy and the Seneca-Paul Correspondence: Theoretical Issues, Epistolography, and this Monograph's Method, Objectives, and Content
1. Pseudepigraphy: Theoretical Issues and their Relevance to the Seneca-Paul Correspondence
2. Epistolography: From the Time of Paul to the First Centuries of the Empire: A Comparative Resource
3. This Monograph's Method, Objectives, and Content
CHAPTER 1: Historical Context and Problematic Literary Texts
1. Gallio, Poppaea, and Seneca's Attitude to Judaism
2. The Account of Paul's Theological Speech to the Stoics and Epicureans
3. A Pseudepigraphical Epistle "by" or "to Seneca"
4. Tertullian on Tiberius' and Nero's Different Attitudes to Jesus and the Jesus Movement
5. Paul and Seneca Put to Death by Nero after Seneca's Loss of Influence on the Emperor
6. Ps.-Seneca's Hercules Oetaeus Read by Later Christians in the Framework of Praeparatio Evangelica
7. Partial Conclusions
CHAPTER 2: The Seneca-Paul Correspondence and Recent Research: Philological, Intertextual, Religious, and Historical Issues
1. What Did Ancient Readers Find in These "Insipid" and "Inept" Letters?
2. Intertextual Perspectives: Examples of Allusions to the New Testament in the Pseudepigraphical Correspondence
2.1. Intertextuality: Allusions to the New Testament and Imperial Literature in the Two Letters Probably Added Afterwards:
2.2. Intertextuality: Allusions to the New Testament in the Letters Belonging to the Original Layer of the Correspondence:
Other Allusions to Paul's New Testament Letters
2.3. Direct Allusions to Whole Early Epistles by Paul: Galatians and 1-2 Corinthians, and the Reading of Parts of these Letters to Nero
3. Lexical and Syntactical Graecisms in the Epistles Attributed to Paul
4. Consules Suffecti, the Early Dating of the Original Layer, and the Late Emergence of the Legend of Seneca's Conversion to Christianity
5. Partial Conclusions
CHAPTER 3: Seneca's Relation to Judaism (and "Paganism") and Its Reflection in the Various Stages of the Seneca-Paul Correspondence
1. Christianity and Judaism in the Letters Probably Added Afterwards
2. Christianity and Judaism in the Original Layer of the Correspondence
3. Partial Conclusions
CHAPTER 4: Comparisons with the Muratori Fragment and Some Thoughts on Marcionism and Tertullian
1. Possible Relations to Marcionism and the Debates around it?
2. The Seneca-Paul Correspondence and the Muratori Fragment: Convergences and Divergences
3. Parallels and Potential Connections with the Stoicising Christian Tertullian
4. Partial Conclusions
CHAPTER 5: By Way of General Conclusion
1. Some Acquisitions and Discussions
2. Then, What?