Re: PISTIS in Josephus

From: Edgar Krentz (ekrentz@lstc.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 18 1999 - 11:07:37 EST


>At 7:51 AM -0600 3/18/99, Jeffrey B. Gibson wrote:
>>Is this argument reversable (if that's the correct term)? That is to say,
>>is Paul's
>>use of PISTIS in Romans (or for that matter in any Epistle to a group
>>within a Roman
>>polis) influenced by what he knew his Roman influenced *readers* would
>>understand by
>>the term?
>
>This is a very good question; I think that Edgar Krentz's comment may bear
>very well on this. One could hardly overstate the importance of the concept
>of FIDES in Roman political thought: it appears often enough even on coins
>of the imperial period, doesn't it (or do I misremember?).
>Carl W. Conrad

Carl, not only FIDES, but doesn't FIDUCIA appear just as often? I con't
think we should assume that FIDES and PISTIS completely overlie one
another. But then, your Latin is probably better than mine.

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