Parution : M.-O. Goulet-Cazé. Cynicism and Christianity in Antiquity

Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé

Cynicism and Christianity in Antiquity. Translated by Christopher R. Smith. Foreword by John S. Kloppenborg, Grand Rapids, Michigan,  Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2019, XVIII-278 p

ISBN: 978-0-8028-7555-6

[Traduction en américain de l’ouvrage Cynisme et christianisme dans l ’Antiquité, coll. «Textes et Traditions», 26, Paris, Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 2014, également paru en allemand: Kynismus und Christentum in der Antike.Aus dem Französischen übersetzt von Lena R. Seehausen, coll. NTOA, Bd. 113, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016, 267 p..]

Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé examines the arguments submitted by some New Testament scholars who believe that Jesus and his disciples were influenced by the ethics and social behaviors of itinerant Cynic preachers in Galilee. 
In examining the “Cynic Jesus hypothesis,” she offers a reliable, accessible, and fully documented summary of Cynicism and its ideas, from Diogenes to the Imperial Period, and she investigates the extent and nature of contact between Cynics and Jewish people, especially between 100 BCE and 100 CE. While recognizing similarities between the ideas and morals of ancient Cynicism and those evident in early Christian movements, Goulet-Cazé identifies more significant, fundamental differences between them in terms of culture, theology, and worldview.