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Many scholars observe that a main theme in the Shepherd of Hermas is the development of repentance. Few, however, have fully developed the concept from the viewpoint of the first-century audience. My thesis is that the unifying theme of the Shepherd is that all godly virtue is g…

The problem of the passions, called the principal concern of Greco-Roman moral philosophy, is also a chief preoccupation of ancient Jewish and Christian homiletic and paraenetic texts. Whereas such texts often treat desire and self-restraint, passion and renunciation, as opposed…