The ethics of obscene speech in early Christianity and its environment /

This book aims to contextualize early Christian rhetoric about foul language by asking such questions as: Where was foul language encountered? What were the conventional arguments for avoiding (or for using) obscene words? How would the avoidance of such speech have been interpreted by others? A car...

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Main Author: Hultin, Jeremy F.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements 128.
Novum Testamentum Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004264557.

Subjects:

Frühchristentum.

Literatur.

Obszönität.

Religiöse Sprache.