Without Lies or Deception': Oracular Claims to Truth in the Epistle to Titus*
The claim to communicate the divine without lies or deception' appears both in the Epistle to Titus and in contemporaneous debates about the truth value of oracles, but not because of any direct literary borrowings from an original source. The Epistle to Titus exemplifies a trend in the second...
| Published in: | New Testament studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2017]
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New Testament studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Titus
/ Paganism
/ Oracle
/ Truth
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| RelBib Classification: | BE Greco-Roman religions CD Christianity and Culture HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Liar Paradox
B Intertextuality B one-liners B Epistle to Titus B Greco-Roman oracles B Second Sophistic |
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| Summary: | The claim to communicate the divine without lies or deception' appears both in the Epistle to Titus and in contemporaneous debates about the truth value of oracles, but not because of any direct literary borrowings from an original source. The Epistle to Titus exemplifies a trend in the second century that created from oracular one-liners a literary discourse about divination, which defended traditional religious knowledge against the rise of unauthorised agents. Shared responses to contemporary phenomena best explain the parallels - and, for example, the quotation of a pagan oracle in the letter, All Cretans are liars' (Titus 1.12). |
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| ISSN: | 1469-8145 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: New Testament studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0028688517000054 |