Christine R. Trotter. Hellenistic Jews and Consolatory Rhetoric: 2 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, 1 Thessalonians, and Hebrews. WUNT 2/600. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023.I noted the publication of the book here.... Ultimately, I decided to narrow my focus on the use of consolatory rhetoric among Hellenistic Jews because I was frustrated by a scholarly conversation about how “Christian consolation” is both similar to and different from “Greco-Roman consolation.” The contributions of ancient Jewish consolatory rhetoric to the development of “Christian consolation” rarely appeared in this debate, even though early Christians drew on both Greco-Roman and Jewish precedents. Why was there not more discussion of how Christian authors utilized the consolatory methods of ancient Jews? ...
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