Posted: Nov 15, 2017 11:29 pm
Clive Durdle wrote:Is the New Testament an impressive political compilation to reframe our thinking from where Seneca et al had got to and were going?
According to Bruno Bauer,
- the writer of Mark's gospel was "an Italian, at home both in Rome and Alexandria";
that of Matthew's gospel "a Roman, nourished by the spirit of Seneca";
Christianity is essentially "Stoicism triumphant in a Jewish garb."
Nazarenus is a glimmer into the world that was eventually turned upside down
The world of the pagans was turned on its head.
Epigrams of Palladas:
http://www.mountainman.com.au/essenes/a ... lladas.htm
- O, the great wickedness of envy! A certain person hates the fortunate man whom God loves. Thus we are irrationally deceived by envy, and thus we are readily enslaved to folly. We Hellenes are men reduced to ashes, holding to our buried hopes in the dead; for everything has now been turned on its head. (AP 10.90)
Surely we are dead and only seem to live, we Hellenes, having fallen into misfortune, pretending that a dream is in fact a way of life. Or are we alive while our way of life is dead? (AP 10.82)