ReligiousandPhilosophicalConversionintheAncientMediterranean Traditions Ancient Philosophy & Religion Editedby GeorgeBoys-Stones(UniversityofToronto) GeorgevanKooten(UniversityofCambridge) AdvisoryBoard GáborBetegh(Cambridge) TroelsEngberg-Pedersen(Copenhagen) ReinhardFeldmeier(Göttingen) MatyášHavrda(Prague) PhilippeHoffmann(ÉcolePratiquedesHautesÉtudes,Paris) GeorgeKaramanolis(Vienna) AndersKlostergaardPetersen(Aarhus) DavidKonstan(NewYorkUniversity) WinrichLöhr(Heidelberg) JohnMagee(Toronto) MarenNiehoff(HebrewUniversityofJerusalem) IlariaRamelli(Milan) GretchenReydams-Schils(NotreDame,USA) LautaroRoigLanzillotta(Groningen) GregoryE.Sterling(Yale) IlincaTanaseanu-Döbler(Göttingen) ShaulTor(King’sCollegeLondon) RobbertvandenBerg(Leiden) PeterVanNuffelen(Ghent) Volume 5 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/aphr Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions Editedby AthanasiosDespotis HermutLöhr LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Despotis,Athanasios,1979-,editor.|Löhr,Hermut,1963-,editor. Title:ReligiousandphilosophicalconversionintheancientMediterranean traditions/editedbyAthanasiosDespotis,HermutLöhr. Description:Leiden;Boston:Brill,[2022]|Series:Ancientphilosophyand religion,2542-3576;volume5|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.| Summary:“Theinterestininterdisciplinaryresearchontheexperienceof religiousconversionorspiritualtransformationgrowsprogressively.Inlightof thisburgeoningareaofstudy,thisvolumeexploresconversionorconverting experienceintheancientMediterraneanwithattentiontoearlyJudaism,early Christianity,andphilosophyintheRomanempire.Thecontributionsinclude bothhistoricalandphilologicalreconstructionsrelyingonsourcematerialand utilizinginterdisciplinaryapproaches.Similarly,theauthorsanalyzethe literaryuseofthemotifofconversion,thetopicofphilosophicalconversionas wellasritual,socialandembodiedaspectsofspiritualtransformation”– Providedbypublisher. 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Contents ListofTablesandFigures ix Contributors x Introduction 1 AthanasiosDespotis Part 1 InterdisciplinaryConversionResearch ContemporaryModelsofConversionandIdentityTransformation 17 Pierre-YvesBrandt UsingBehaviouralSciencestoUnderstandEarlyChristianExperiencesof Conversion 43 RikardRoitto Part 2 ConversioninAncientJudaism TheLostDaughter:APhilologicalStudyontheBookofRuth 61 Karl-HeinrichOstmeyer ConversionwithinIsrael?:AnEssayonOldandNewinSecondTemple Judaism,andonPaultheConvertAccordingtoPhil3:2–4:1 86 HermutLöhr StrategiesofConversioninaJewish-OrphicHierosLogos:ACognitive Approach 119 AnnaFurlan “Makingtešuḇā”(הבושתתושעל):“(Re-)turning”inTannaiticLiterature 145 FrancescoZanella vi Contents Part 3 ConversioninPhilosophicalTraditions TheAwakeandSoberWayofLife:AKeyMotifintheStoicConversion 163 SharonPadilla PhilosophicalConversioninPlutarch’sMoraliaandtheCulturalDiscoursesin theAncientMediterranean 203 AthanasiosDespotis ConversiontoPhilosophyinDiogenesLaertius:FormsandFunctions 219 SergiGrau Part 4 ConversionintheNewTestament IsThereConversionintheSynopticGospels? 241 PhillipA.DavisJr. MetanoiaintheSermonontheMount–APhilosophicalApproach 272 RaulHeimann ReligiousandPhilosophicalConversioninPaulandJohn 315 AthanasiosDespotis ‘ConsiderYourselvesDead’(Rom6:11):BiographicalReconstruction, Conversion,andtheDeathoftheSelfinRomans 342 StephenJ.Chester ACostofDiscipleship?TheRelationshipbetweenConversionandAlmsgiving fortheNewTestamentAuthors 369 MatthewN.Williams Part 5 ConversioninMysteryCultsandLateAntiquity BacktoaClassicDebate:ConversionandSalvationinAncientMystery Cults? 407 MiguelHerrerodeJáuregui Contents vii TheSycharStoryasaStandardConversionNarrativeinHeracleon’s Hypomnēmata 427 CarlJohanBerglund IndexofPassages 451 IndexofSubjects 470 Tables and Figures Tables 1 ParadigmsinpsychologicalconversionresearchafterZock(2006) 27 2 Characteristicfeaturesofinstantaneousandprocessualconversioncompared tothreeinterpretationsofscientificdiscovery 32 Figures 1a AgentileconvertstoChrist-believingJudaism 50 1b Agentileconvertstoanon-JewishformofChristianity 50 2 AJewconvertstoasupra-JewishformofChristianity 51 3 AJewjoinsaChrist-believingJewishcommunity 52 4 APharisaicJewbecomesaChrist-believingJew 53 5 AgentilejoinstheChrist-cultwithoutabandoningpagancults 54 Contributors CarlJohanBerglund Dr., Director of Studies, Stockholm School of Theology at University College Stockholm/PostdoctoralResearcheratÅboAkademiUniversity,Turku Pierre-YvesBrandt Professor, Faculty of Theology and Sciences of Religions, University of Lau- sanne StephenJ.Chester Lord and Lady Coggan Professor of New Testament, Wycliffe College at the UniversityofToronto PhillipA.Davis Dr.,ResearchAssociate,ProtestantTheologicalFaculty,UniversityofBonn AthanasiosDespotis apl.Professor,ProtestantTheologicalFaculty,UniversityofBonn,ResearchAs- sociateattheUniversityofBernandtheUniversityofPretoria SergiGrau Dr., Lecturer of Ancient Greek Philology at the University of Barcelona, ResearchAssociateattheInstitutCatalàd’ArqueologiaClàssica(ICAC) AnnaLuciaFurlan Dr.,VistingResearchFellowattheDepartmentofClassics,King’sCollegeLon- donandaffiliatedwiththeCatholicUniversityofMilan RaulHeimann Dr.,Lecturer,InstituteofPhilosophy,FreieUniversitätBerlin MiguelHerrerodeJáuregui Professor, Department of Classical Philology, Complutense University of Madrid HermutLöhr Professor,ProtestantTheologicalFaculty,UniversityofBonn