By Perry L. Stepp
Given that New testomony occasions, the dialogue of management succession within the church has constantly been polemical. yet what the recent testomony, particularly within the Pastoral Epistles, capacity in conversing of succession merits a extra sober research within the mild of the literary culture approximately succession within the historical Mediterranean international. How is succession truly depicted in Graeco-Roman texts and in Jewish and early Christian texts of that global? This e-book undertakes, for the 1st time, a thoroughgoing research of the proof, deftly laying out the knowledge from quite a lot of Greek and Roman writers. The query then turns into how the early readers of the hot testomony, conditioned via earlier wisdom of such epistolary and different literary conventions, might have interpreted Paul's dating together with his delegates like Timothy and Titus, and the way they might have conceived the ministry portrayed within the Pastorals as passing from a pacesetter to a successor. Stepp's research has very important implications either for our figuring out of the traditional Mediterranean international and for our conceptions of ordination and ministry within the New testomony.
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115 [Hicks, LCL]). Again, the focus of the contemplated succession is the object—the school. Nothing is said of possession of property or the effect of the succession, and so on. Thus succession in the headship of a philosophical school here ensures that the institution (the school) continues to thrive. If Timon had had a proper successor, his school would not have fallen into inactivity. The contemplated exchanges are mapped in Fig. 20 (next page). 25. For commentary, see Jørgen Mejer, Diogenes Laertius and his Hellenistic Background (Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1978).
Dio was a Roman politician and historian of the third century CE. He wrote several works, including biographies and religious literature, but is best remembered for his history of Rome, which tells its story from its beginnings through 229 CE. 30-31, Dio tells the story of how Augustus chose his successor. When Augustus was thought to be near death, he appointed Agrippa to follow him as emperor. 22 Why did Augustus make this unexpected choice? He apparently chose Agrippa because he felt Agrippa would be a better ruler.
I devote the remainder of this chapter to outlining the balance of the monograph. In the second and third chapters, I survey ancient texts which describe the function of succession. Succession is mentioned or appealed to in a number of ancient texts. In this study, my textbase includes 60 ancient Mediterranean texts, distilled from Graeco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian sources from before 200 CE, which not only refer to succession between people but also have as a central and explicit concern the function of succession (what succession achieved, its desired outcome).