Good Life, Brave Death, and Earned Immortality: Features of a Neglected Ancient Virtue Discourse

This article examines early Jewish ideas of virtue that are usually ignored in presentations of the history of virtue discourse. We analyze the use of the Greek term ἀρετή in the Apocrypha of the Septuagint; all the occurrences of the term are in texts that were originally composed in Greek. We argu...

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Main Authors: Yli-Karjanmaa Sami, Uusimäki Elisa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2022-08-01
Series:Open Theology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2022-0207