Ancient Forgiveness: Classical, Judaic, and Christian (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Ancient Forgiveness In this book, eminent scholars of classical antiquity and ancient and medieval Judaism and Christianity explore the nature and place of forgiveness in the pre-modern Western world.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 29 December 2011
- Format: Hardback 276 pages
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- Categories: Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Philosophy | Western Philosophy: Ancient, To C 500 | Ethics & Moral Philosophy | Social & Political Philosophy | Assertiveness, Motivation & Self-esteem
- ISBN 13: 9780521119481 ISBN 10: 0521119480
- Sales rank: 1,077,777
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Full description for Ancient Forgiveness
In this book, eminent scholars of classical antiquity and ancient and medieval Judaism and Christianity explore the nature and place of forgiveness in the pre-modern Western world. They discuss whether the concept of forgiveness, as it is often understood today, was absent, or at all events more restricted in scope than has been commonly supposed, and what related ideas (such as clemency or reconciliation) may have taken the place of forgiveness. An introductory chapter reviews the conceptual territory of forgiveness and illuminates the potential breadth of the idea, enumerating the important questions a theory of the subject should explore. The following chapters examine forgiveness in the contexts of classical Greece and Rome; the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, and Moses Maimonides; and the New Testament, the Church Fathers, and Thomas Aquinas.
