Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea

by David Konstan

Book Overview

In this book, David Konstan argues that the modern concept of interpersonal forgiveness, in the full sense of the term, did not exist in ancient Greece and Rome. Even more startlingly, it is not fully present in the Hebrew Bible, nor again in the New Testament, or in the early Jewish and Christian commentaries on the Holy Scriptures. It would still be centuries-- many centuries-- before the idea of interpersonal forgiveness, with its accompanying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107680204
• ISBN13: 9781107680203
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"