Paul as 'Homo Novus'

Authorial Strategies of Self-Fashioning in Light of a Ciceronian Term. Edited by Eve-Marie Becker and Jacob Mortensen.

20ths century research in St. Paul is widely impacted by Adolf Deissmann’s prominent view on the apostle as a “homo novus” (1911). This collection of articles does not only re-evaluate Deissmann’s concept by tracing it back to its historical and socio-political origins in Cicero and exploring how authors from (early) Imperial Time perceive and transform the homo novus paradigm by diverse modes and strategies of literary self-fashioning. Scholars also examine how the Ciceronian paradigm was early on transformed, disseminated, and applied as a literary concept and an authorial topos of self-molding. With contributions by Oda Wischmeyer, Andreas Mehl, Henriette van der Blom et al. 350 Seiten, gebunden (Studia Aarhusiana Neotestamentica; Vol. 6/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2018) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear