Spectral Lives by Luke and Philostratus

Robert Lee Williams

doi:10.5771/9781793651082

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In the first century CE, the Jewish Jesus, his followers, and the Pythagorean Apollonius journeyed widely, each to spread their good news. Spectral Lives by Luke and Philostratus: Journeying of Holy Men argues that the biographers, Luke and Philostratus felt ethically compelled from divine specters to show and tell that good news to help their world. Post-Enlightenment developments in historiography have expanded understanding of ancient texts with a “third dimension,” a “transhuman habitat” evident in ancient texts. In this book, Robert Lee Williams investigates how affect theory has sensitized interpreters to emotional responses.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-5107-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-5108-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 302
Product type: Book Titles

1. 1. Notes No access
2. Abbreviations No access
1. 1. Lives No access
  2. Journeying No access
  3. 1. Affect Theory No access
    2. Queer Theory No access
    3. Summary for Literary Theory No access
  4. Summary for Components No access
2. Argument of the Study No access
3. Structure No access
4. Notes No access
1. Homer’s Odyssey No access
2. 1. Scylax No access
  2. Xanthus No access
  3. Ion No access
  4. Stesimbrotos No access
3. 1. 1. Cyrus the Younger No access
    2. Socrates No access
  2. Isocrates’s Evagoras and Xenophon’s Agesilaus No access
  3. Xenophon, Cyrus the Great No access
4. 1. Aristoxenus No access
  2. Hermippus No access
  3. Antigonus No access
  4. Satyrus No access
5. 1. Hebrew Scripture No access
  2. Cornelius Nepos and Nicolaus of Damascus No access
6. 1. 1. Philo No access
    2. Josephus No access
    3. Lives of the Prophets No access
  2. The Canonical Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles No access
7. 1. Plutarch No access
  2. Tacitus and Pliny the Younger No access
  3. Anonymous (The Life of Secundus the Philosopher) and Lucian: Pythagorean No access
8. 1. The Life of Aesop No access
  2. The Life of Homer No access
  3. The Life of Alexander No access
9. 1. 1. Diogenes Laertius No access
    2. Philostratus No access
  2. 1. Porphyry No access
    2. Iamblichus No access
10. Conclusion No access
11. Notes No access
Part I: First-Century Biographies No access Pages 57 - 58
1. 1. Birth in Obscurity to Life in Pharaoh’s Palace, 5–46 No access
  2. His Relocating to Arabia as a Shepherd, 47–64 No access
  3. The Burning Bush with an Oracle from the Deity, 65–84 No access
  4. Return to Egypt, 85–162 No access
  5. Journey from Egypt, 163–334 No access
2. 1. From “Chaldea” to “a Desolate Place,” 60–88 No access
  2. From “Syria” to Egypt, 89–106 No access
  3. From “the City” to “a Certain Lofty Hill,” 167–207 No access
3. 1. Joseph’s Dreams and His Being Sold and Taken Captive to Egypt as a Slave for the Chief Cook, 1–36 No access
  2. The Chief Cook’s Household, His Wife, and Prison for Joseph, 37–79 No access
  3. 1. Joseph’s Life in Prison with Interpretation of Dreams, 80–87 No access
    2. Transfer to the Royal Palace with Advancement, 88–156 No access
  4. 1. Joseph’s Travel in Egypt, 157–62 No access
    2. Encounters with His Brothers, 157–270 No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. The Holy Ghost’s Introduction of Jesus and His Role No access
2. The Holy Ghost’s Introduction of Jesus to His Coming Activity No access
3. 1. Announcement of Liberation in Nazareth No access
  2. Journeying in Galilee: Liberation in Message and Miracles No access
4. 1. Transformation and Prediction of Suffering No access
  2. 1. Exorcism and Passion Prediction with Misunderstanding No access
    2. Spectral Authority with Pairs of Jesus’s Followers No access
    3. Spectral Ethics No access
    4. Spectral Danger No access
5. 1. Spectral Liberation No access
  2. Spectral Prediction of Destruction No access
  3. Spectral Acclamation No access
  4. Jesus’s Sorrow No access
6. 1. 1. The Strange Supper No access
    2. Night Arrest No access
    3. Interrogations as Yahweh’s Servant No access
    4. Execution with Dual Affects No access
  2. 1. Specters First to Women No access
    2. Spectral Appearance and Disappearance No access
  3. Departure No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
1. 1. Initial Activities of the Divine Ghost No access
  2. Peter with John No access
  3. Peter with the Apostles No access
  4. Stephen and Philip No access
2. 1. Philip No access
  2. Saul No access
  3. Saul with Ananias No access
  4. Saul with Barnabas No access
  5. Peter with Cornelius and the Jerusalem Church No access
3. 1. Barnabas and Saul No access
  2. 1. Cyprus No access
    2. Southcentral Asia Minor No access
  3. Return to Antioch No access
  4. The Jerusalem Council No access
4. 1. 1. The Second Journey to Churches in Asia Minor No access
    2. Spectral Redirection to Macedonia No access
    3. Athens No access
    4. Corinth No access
    5. Return Home No access
  2. 1. Asia Minor and Ephesus No access
    2. Farewell to Greece, Macedonia, and Ephesus No access
    3. Return to Jerusalem No access
5. 1. 1. Arrest No access
    2. Defenses No access
    3. Caesarea No access
  2. 1. Voyage to Malta No access
    2. Recovery on Malta and Arrival in Rome No access
    3. Meetings in Rome No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
Part II: Third-Century Biographies No access Pages 201 - 202
1. Pythagoreanism No access
2. 1. Babylon No access
  2. India No access
  3. Iarchas No access
3. 1. 1. The East No access
    2. The West No access
    3. The South No access
  2. 1. Vardanes in Babylon, Phraotes in Taxila, and the Indian King No access
    2. Nero and the Consul Tigellinus in Rome No access
    3. Vespasian in Alexandria No access
    4. Titus in Tarsus No access
    5. Domitian and the Praetorian Prefect Aelianus in Rome No access
4. 1. Celebration in Greece No access
  2. Development of Disciples No access
  3. Enigmatic Disappearance No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. 1. Initial Homeric Education on Samos No access
  2. Eastern Thought with Pherecydes and Affirmation with Thales in Miletus No access
  3. 1. Egypt No access
    2. Babylon No access
2. Challenges and Accomplishments on Return to Samos No access
3. 1. Forming the Community No access
  2. Dissolution of the Community No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. General Results No access
2. 1. Biographers with Ethical Concern No access
  2. Biographers with Other Interests No access
3. 1. Similarities in Journeyings No access
  2. 1. Differences Converging No access
    2. Differences Diverging No access
4. 1. Continuity and Discontinuity No access
  2. Ghosts in Judaism and Islam No access
5. Notes No access
1. Primary No access
2. Secondary No access
Index of Modern Scholars No access Pages 281 - 284
Index of Subjects No access Pages 285 - 296
Index of Ancient Sources No access Pages 297 - 300
About the Author No access Pages 301 - 302