The ethics of obscene speech in early Christianity and its environment by
By: Jeremy F. Hultin.
Series: Supplements to Novum Testamentum -- v. 128
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9789004168039
Subjects: Clean speech; Oral communication -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A survey of foul language in the ancient world; title: What is foul language?; title: Plato and Aristotle on foul language; title: Plato and the dangers of mimesis; title: Aristotle and the bounds of humor; title: Abuse; title: Laws against slander; title: Religious rites; title: Excursus : the language of some love charms; title: Comedy; title: New forms of comic drama; title: Literary obscenities; title: Epigram; title: Tales of sexual adventures and sex manuals; title: Ovid's culpa; title: Speech, character, and self-definition; title: Speech as it relates to character; title: Speech as it defined specific groups; title: Cynics and shameless speech; title: Stoics; title: The linguistic roots of the stoic ethics of foul language; title: Excursus : Bryson the Megarian; title: Changes in stoic (and cynic) views of obscene speech; title: Jewish scripture and earliest Christianity; title: Prophetic scatology; title: Wisdom literature and Ben Sirach; title: Jesus; title: James; title: Didache 3:3 and the two ways; title: Paul; title: Galatians 5:12; title: Philippians 3:8:; title: Colossians and Ephesians; title: Colossians 3:8; title: Colossians 4:6 : "season your speech with salt"; title: Ephesians; title: Ii.a. exegesis of Ephesians 5:3-14; title: "Let them not even be named among you" (Eph 5:3); title: "Shameful even to mention" (Eph 5:12); title: Speech rules in 1qs; title: Profaning a sanctum; title: Not fitting for holy ones; title: Speech and Christian identities; title: Clement of Alexandria on foul language; title: The divine paedagogue and Christian manners; title: On foul language; title: Excursus : Clement and the Didache; title: "Deeper logos" about foul language; title: Comparing Clement.