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Friday, May 23, 2014

Jesus' as Teacher of Happiness

The ever-impressive Luke Timothy Johnson explores Matthew's portrait of Jesus as teacher in this lecture. LTJ sets Jesus' view of happiness in conversation with other ancient philosophers.

I'd love to hear what students of ancient philosophy think about his assessment of Aristotle, Epicurus, Epictetus. Does LTJ get their view of happiness right? And would elements of Jesus' sermon on the mount seem vulgar to them, as LTJ claims?

I would have liked to hear him bring Theodorus the Atheist into this discussion.

-anthony

p.s. My thanks to Jeff Peterson for pointing me to this lecture.

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Joshua Paul SmithMay 23, 2014 at 7:24 AM
I saw this a while back when Brian posted it on Near Emmaus (RIP). I loved the lecture, but it seems like the whole discussion rests on the translation of makarios as "happy," no?
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Ken BMay 23, 2014 at 10:59 AM
LTJ has a series of 24 lectures on the Greco-Roman moralists, often on sale for about $30. http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=4473
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DaleMay 24, 2014 at 7:58 PM
My take:http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NjLQpX7wVb8&list=PL0B58AB39400D982E

Part of my intro to Philosophy class. Looking forward to hearing LTJ's take.
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James Crossley (PhD, Nottingham) is Professor of Bible, Society, and Politics at St. Mary's University, Twickenham, London. In addition to most things historical Jesus, his interests typically concern Jewish law and the Gospels, the social history of biblical scholarship, and the reception of the Bible in contemporary politics and culture. He is co-executive editor of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus.

Christine Jacobi studied protestant theology and art history in Berlin and Heidelberg. She is research associate at the chair of exegesis and theology of the New Testament and apocryphal writings. She completed her dissertation at the Humboldt-University of Berlin in 2014. She is the author of Jesusüberlieferung bei Paulus? Analogien zwischen den echten Paulusbriefen und den synoptischen Evangelien (BZNW 213), Berlin: de Gruyter 2015. Christine Jacobi is a member of the „August-Boeckh-Antikezentrum“ and the „Berliner Arbeitskreis für koptisch-gnostische Schriften“.

Chris Keith (PhD, Edinburgh) is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity and Director of the Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, London.

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Friday, May 23, 2014

Jesus' as Teacher of Happiness

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