By Perry L. Stepp
Given that New testomony instances, the dialogue of management succession within the church has regularly been polemical. yet what the recent testomony, specially within the Pastoral Epistles, capacity in conversing of succession merits a extra sober research within the gentle of the literary culture approximately succession within the historic Mediterranean international. How is succession truly depicted in Graeco-Roman texts and in Jewish and early Christian texts of that global? This e-book undertakes, for the 1st time, a thoroughgoing research of the facts, deftly laying out the information from quite a lot of Greek and Roman writers. The query then turns into how the early readers of the hot testomony, conditioned by way of past wisdom of such epistolary and different literary conventions, may have interpreted Paul's dating together with his delegates like Timothy and Titus, and the way they'd have conceived the ministry portrayed within the Pastorals as passing from a pace-setter to a successor. Stepp's research has very important implications either for our realizing of the traditional Mediterranean international and for our conceptions of ordination and ministry within the New testomony.
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2 [Jones, LCL]) out of money from a bribe they had agreed to split. In return, Callicrates had Menalcidas charged with treason, a capital crime. For help, Menalcidas turned to Diaius of Megalopolis, who had succeeded him as general in service of Achaea. He bribed Diaius, paying him three talents so that Diaius would use his influence to save Menalcidas’s skin. 2). This text focuses on characteristic activities/attitudes shared by the predecessor and his successor. Thus succession of leadership/rule here again ensures continuity of manner.
1 2. Background and Graeco-Roman Texts 29 duname/nwn). But Evagoras proved to be tougher than Orontes had anticipated, and Tiribazus’s men hated Orontes for betraying their old commander. So Orontes was eventually forced to make peace on the same terms that he had urged Artaxerxes to arrest Tiribazus over. 16 As with Text 5: Aristotle, Cons. Ath. 1-4, this text focuses on the effect of succession. A comparison between the two is instructive, however: in the previous text, the effect was the culmination of a process intertwined with the succession.
Background and Graeco-Roman Texts 23 Cypselus was a violent and harsh ruler who killed and robbed his own people. 92]) was at first not so harsh, but he soon fell under the influence of Thrasybulus of Miletus. Periander sent a messenger to Thrasybulus, asking how he (Periander) could best rule his kingdom. In response, Thrasybulus took the messenger out into a field that was nearly ready to harvest, and as he walked along and talked to the messenger, he systematically destroyed the best stalks of grain, rendering them useless.