This book derives from the Messenger Lectures at Cornell. In it Daube provides a synoptic view of nonviolent civil disobedience in the Ancient World. His learning lets him draw freely on Greek and Roman sources--theological, legal historical, literary, dramatic, and popular. From these he shows that there is hardly a variety of civil disobedience known today which is not anticipated in some form or another by the ancients. Is this book more than an entertaining exercise of scholarship? Professor Daube writes, "To speak ...
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This book derives from the Messenger Lectures at Cornell. In it Daube provides a synoptic view of nonviolent civil disobedience in the Ancient World. His learning lets him draw freely on Greek and Roman sources--theological, legal historical, literary, dramatic, and popular. From these he shows that there is hardly a variety of civil disobedience known today which is not anticipated in some form or another by the ancients. Is this book more than an entertaining exercise of scholarship? Professor Daube writes, "To speak through historical figures is sometimes wiser than to declare in one's own name. The word 'person' originally means a mask . . . Civil disobedience can at all times profitably avail itself of persons."
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Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 085224231X. Very light shelfwear else fine.; Contents: The women of the Bible and Greece; the women of Rome; children and slaves; prophets and philosophers; religious minorities; aspirants to statehood. A Synoptic view of non-violent civil disobedience in the Ancient World. Draws on Greek and Roman studies--theological, legal historical, literary, dramatic and popular.; 167 pages.
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Very Good-in Very Good dust jacket. 085224231X. One closed tear (1 ") to top of front panel of DJ. Pencil underlining in text. 2 pages have underlining in green ink.; Contents: The women of the Bible and Greece; the women of Rome; children and slaves; prophets and philosophers; religious minorities; aspirants to statehood. A Synoptic view of non-violent civil disobedience in the Ancient World. Draws on Greek and Roman studies--theological, legal historical, literary, dramatic and popular.; 167 pages.
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