Teaching through Song in Antiquity

Name: Teaching through Song in Antiquity | Didactic Hymnody among Greeks, Romans, Jews, and Christians
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Didactic Hymnody among Greeks, Romans, Jews, and Christians

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Erschienen im April 2011

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Cover
Dedication
Preface
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Beginning a Study of Ancient Didactic Hymns, Prayers, and Poems
A. Introduction
B. A Definition of Didactic Hymnody
C. Identification of Didactic Hymns
D. Scope and Approach of this Study
E. Methodological Considerations
1. Discourse Oriented Analysis and Reader-Response Criticism
2. Mnemohistory and the Construction of Identity
3. Performance-Criticism
4. Multiple Levels of Didactic Impact
F. Classification of Didactic Hymns, Prayers, and Religious Poetry
1. Temporal Register
2. Spatial/Geographical Register
3. Attributive/Narratival Register
4. Other Registers
G. Summary
Chapter 2: Homeric Hymns and Hesiodic Poetry
A. Introduction
B. The Homeric Hymns
1. Hymn to Demeter
2. Hymn to Apollo
3. Hymn to Hermes
4. General Conclusions Regarding Didactic Emphases of the Homeric Hymns
C. Hesiodic Poetry and Hymnody
1. Hesiod's Theogony
2. The Prelude to Works and Days
D. Conclusions
Chapter 3: Didactic Hymns and Prayers in the Service of Philosophy
A. Introduction
B. Aristotle's Hymn to Virtue
C. Aratus's Hymn to Zeus
D. Cleanthes' Hymn to Zeus
E. Lucretius's On the Nature of the Universe
F. Conclusions
Chapter 4: Didactic Aspects of the Praises of Human Rulers
A. Introduction
B. Pindar's Victory Odes
1. Pindar's Pythian 1
C. Hymnic Praises of Rulers
1. Hellenic and Hellenistic Practices
D. Isocrates' Evagoras
1. Praiseworthy Qualities
2. God-like Characteristics
3. Didactic Emphases
E. Praises of Ptolemy II Philadelphus by Callimachus and Theocritus
1. Callimachus's Hymn to Zeus
2. Theocritus's Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus
F. Praise of Rulers in the Roman Era
1. Emerging Imperial Ideology
G. Horace's Odes and Praise of Augustus
1. Horace Odes IV.5
2. Horace Odes IV.15
3. Conclusions Regarding Horace's Praise of Augustus
H. Imperial Praise after Horace
I. Pliny's Panegyricus
1. Associations with the Gods: Trajan is a Gift of the Gods to Humanity
2. Trajan's Accomplishments Include Restoration of the Blessings of the Republic
3. Exhortation
J. Conclusions
Chapter 5: Didactic Hymns in the Hebrew Bible
A. Introduction
B. Didactic Hymns in the Hebrew Bible: An Overview
C. Didactic Hymns in the Psalter
1. Psalm 34
2. Psalm 49
3. Psalm 105
4. Conclusions Regarding Didactic Hymns in the Psalter
D. Didactic Hymns Outside of the Psalms
1. Didactic Hymns in Wisdom Writings
1.1 Proverbs 8
2. Didactic Hymns in Narrative Contexts
2.1. The Song of the Sea (Exod 15)
2.2. The Song of Moses (Deut 32:1-43)
3. Praise in Prophetic and Apocalyptic Writings
3.1. Hymns in Isaiah 40-55
3.2. Didactic Hymns in Daniel
E. Conclusions
Chapter 6: Didactic Hymns in Jewish Writings from the Second Temple Period to the Second Century
A. Introduction
B. Didactic Hymns in Psalm Collections
1. Psalms of Solomon
2. Hellenistic Synagogal Prayers
C. Didactic Hymns in Wisdom Writings
1. Wisdom of Solomon
2. The Wisdom of Ben Sira
2.1. Sirach 24:1-22
2.2. Sirach 39:12-35
2.3. Sirach 44:1-50:24
D. Didactic Hymns in Narrative Contexts
1. Tobit 13:1-18
2. Baruch
E. Hymnic Contributions to Apocalypses
1. 1 Enoch 84
2. Fourth Ezra
3. 2 Baruch
4. Apocalypse of Abraham
5. Conclusions about Hymns in Apocalyptic Writings
F. Conclusions
Chapter 7: Didactic Hymns in the Dead Sea Scrolls
A. Introduction
B. Hymns and Prayers in the War Scroll (1QM)
1. The Prayers
2. The Prayer for the Time of War
3. Prayer on the Day of Victory
4. Prayer on the Day after the Victory
C. The Barkhi Nafshi Hymns (4Q434-438)
1. 4Q434 1 i 1-14
2. 4Q437 2 i 1-16
D. Didactic Hymns in the Hodayot (1QHa)
1. 1QHa 9:1-39
2. 1QHa 13:7-21
3. Other Qumran Themes in the Hodayot
E. Conclusions
Chapter 8: Didactic Hymns in the Letters of the New Testament
A. Introduction
B. Confessional Materials in the New Testament Letters
C. Didactic Aspects of New Testament Christological Hymns
D. Philippians 2:6-11
E. Colossians 1:15-20
F. Conclusions
Chapter 9: Didactic Hymns in New Testament Narratives and the Apocalypse
A. Introduction
B. Didactic Hymns in the Infancy Narrative of Luke's Gospel
1. The Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55)
2. The Benedictus (Luke 1:68-79)
3. Gloria (Luke 2:14)
4. The Nunc Dimittis (Luke 2:29-32)
5. Imperial Overtones in the Lukan Hymns
6. Conclusions about the Hymns of the Infancy Narrative
C. The Johannine Prologue and Didactic Hymnody
1. Claims of the Hymn
2. Conflict about Moses?
3. Function of the Prologue
4. Conclusions Regarding the Johannine Prologue and Didactic Hymnody
D. Didactic Hymns in Revelation 4-5
1. Social Setting of Revelation
2. Narrative Setting of the Hymns
3. The Hymns and their Contents
4. What do the Hymns of Rev 4-5 Teach?
E. Conclusions
Chapter 10: Didactic Hymns in Early Christian Writings
A. Introduction
B. Ignatius of Antioch
1. The Star Hymn in Ignatius' Epistle to the Ephesians
2. Shorter Hymnic Passages in Ignatius
C. Gnostic Hymns
1. The Psalm of Valentinus
2. The Naassene Hymn
D. Odes of Solomon
1. Odes of Solomon 16
2. Odes of Solomon 41
E. Clement of Alexandria's Hymn to Christ the Savior
F. Conclusions
Chapter 11: Didactic Hymns and the Communities that Treasured Them
A. Didactic Hymnody in the Greco-Roman World
B. Didactic Hymns in Jewish Traditions
C. Didactic Hymns in Early Christian Traditions
D. Summary and Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Ancient Sources
1. Hebrew Bible
2. Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
3. Dead Sea Scrolls
4. New Testament
5. Early Christian Writings
6. Greek and Roman Authors
7. Papyri and Inscriptions
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects

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