دانلود کتاب An Early History of Compassion: Emotion and Imagination in Hellenistic Judaism

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Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter
1 Between Power and Vulnerability
1.1 Feeling for Others’ Pain in the Greek Language
1.2 Josephus: Pity and Sympathy as Privilege
1.3 The Testament of Zebulun: Compassion as Vulnerability
1.4 Philo’s Pity: Between Emotion and Virtue
1.5 When Vulnerability and Empowerment Intertwine
Chapter 2 Found in Translation
2.1 Compassion in Biblical Hebrew?
2.2 The Greek Scriptures: A Linguistic Space for Emotions
2.3 Pity: Twists and Turns
2.4 Conclusion: An “Aura of Antiquity”
Chapter 3 Within the Fabric of Society
3.1 Sirach: Pity as Negotiation of Status
3.2 Two Foundation Myths of Pity
3.3 Receiving Pity: An Experience of Humiliation and Emasculation
3.4 Feeling Pity: A Feminine and Feminizing Attitude
3.5 Reclaiming Masculinity by Withholding Sympathy
3.6 Conclusion: What Pity Does and Costs
Chapter 4 Bonds in Flux
4.1 Tobit: The Invention of a Diaspora Community
4.2 Pity as Inclusion in a Common Humanity
4.3 Pity as a Dual Marker of Identity
4.4 A Gentle Emotion That Inspires Action
4.5 Conclusion: Why Is the Love Command Reshaped into Compassion?
Chapter 5 In Dialogue with the Empire
5.1 Pity in Late Hellenistic and Early Imperial Narrative Literature
5.2 Imagining the Care for All Others in Philosophical Literature
5.3 Intersections: The Other’s Suffering in an Ethic Focused on the Self
5.4 Echoes in Imperial Propaganda
5.5 A Minority Culture’s Engagement with a Dominant Ideology
Conclusion:
A Discourse of the Other
Bibliography
Indexes
Greek and Roman Sources
Jewish and Christian Sources
Subject Index