Table of Contents
Preface vii
Abbreviations ix
1 Setting the Scene: Stoicism and Platonism in the Transitional Period in Ancient Philosophy Troels Engberg-Pedersen 1
2 Stoicism as a Key to Pauline Ethics in Romans Runar M. Thorsteinsson 15
3 Stoic Law in Paul? Niko Huttunen 39
4 Jesus the Teacher and Stoic Ethics in the Gospel of Matthew Stanley K. Stowers 59
5 An "Emotional" Jesus and Stoic Tradition Harold W. Attridge 77
6 The Emotional Jesus: Anti-Stoicism in the Fourth Gospel? Gitte Buch-Hansen 93
7 Stoic Physics, the Universal Conflagration, and the Eschatological Destruction of the "Ignorant and Unstable" in 2 Peter J. Albert Harrill 115
8 The Stoics and the Early Christians on the Treatment of Slaves John T. Fitzgerald 141
9 Facing the Beast: Justin, Christian Martyrdom, and Freedom of the will Nicola Denzey 176
10 A Stoic Reading of the Gospel of Mary: The Meaning of "Matter" and "Nature" in Gospel of Mary 7.1-8.11 Esther de Boer 199
11 Stoic Traditions in the School of Valentinus Ismo Dunderberg 220
12 Critical Reception of the Stoic Theory of Passions in the Apocryphon of John Takashi Onuki 239
13 Stoic Ingredients in the Neoplatonic Being-Life-Mind Triad: An Original Second-Century Gnostic Innovation? Tuomas Rasimus 257
Index of Modern Authors 275
Index of Subjects 281
Index of Ancient Sources 288
