The Invention of Sin

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13 avril 2017

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Pensée Philosophie Littératures Histoire des religions Préhistoire et antiquité sin

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OpenEdition, « The Invention of Sin », Calenda, le calendrier des lettres, des sciences humaines et sociales, ID : 10670/1.ryidzr


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The Greek word for a fault or error is hamartia; this same word, when it appears in Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible and in the New Testament, is commonly rendered as “sin.”  If there were no word like sin or péché or Sünde or peccato in modern languages, with the religious connotation these terms have acquired, could we identify a special sense of hamartia (or the Latin peccatum) in the Bible on the basis of context alone?  This colloquium will address the question of when and how error and wrongdoing acquired the specific sense of sin commonly associated with the Judaeo-Christian tradition – if indeed there was a change.  Under examination will be attitudes toward wrongdoing in ancient cults, ideas of pollution, conceptions of God or gods, and more.

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