‘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...

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1. VerfasserIn: Harrill, J. Albert 1963- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Univ. Press [2017]
In: New Testament studies
Jahr: 2017, Band: 63, Heft: 3, Seiten: 451-472
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Bibel. Titusbrief / Heidentum / Orakel / Wahrheit
RelBib Classification:BE Griechisch-Römische Religionen
CD Christentum und Kultur
HC Neues Testament
weitere Schlagwörter:B Liar Paradox
B Intertextuality
B one-liners
B Epistle to Titus
B Greco-Roman oracles
B Second Sophistic
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Zusammenfassung: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).
ISSN:1469-8145
Enthält:Enthalten in: New Testament studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0028688517000054