Publication at Hussite Theological Faculty |
2022
Abstract
The lecture reflected on the concept of "sin" and the perception of death in the context of the Old Testament conceptual apparatus, the letters of the apostle Paul and the literature of Second Temple Judaism. The perception of man as "sinful," to whom it is necessary to offer salvation, which he cannot realize on his own, determines the understanding of humanity and tells about the world of Judaism of antiquity and its cultural framework.
The educated Hellenized Jew Paul worked in this culture, thanks to whose universalization of religion-ethical categories central to Judaism, it was possible to introduce into the non-Jewish world newly conceived moral categories connected with the values of Judaism and Stoic philosophy.