Burton L. Mack
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Burton L. Mack was an American author and scholar of early Christian history and the New Testament. He was John Wesley Professor emeritus in early Christianity at the Claremont School of Theology in C
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Cynicism (philosophy)
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Cynicism is a school of thought in ancient Greek philosophy, originating in the Classical period and extending into the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods. According to Cynicism, people are reason
Burton L. Mack
…90. Though he did not regard himself as a Historical Jesus scholar, he suggested that Jesus was a wandering sage, similar in style to the Greco-Roman Cynics, and that the earliest "Jesus Movements" followed a similar model. He was a noted scholar of the hypothetical Q Document, and is confident that it can…
Statue of an unknown Cynic philosopher from the Capitoline Museums in Rome. This statue is a Roman-era copy of an earlier Greek statue from the third century BC. The scroll in his right hand is an 18th-century restoration.[citation needed]
The Cynics adopted Heracles, shown here in this gilded bronze statue from the second century AD, as their patron hero.
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Diogenes Searching for an Honest Man (c. 1780) attributed to J. H. W. Tischbein