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For a list of book indices included, see here.

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All subjects (including unvalidated):

subject	book bibliographic info
device', fatum, technical	Davies (2004), Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods, 228, 229
device', fortuna, technical	Davies (2004), Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods, 228, 229
device, agamben, giorgio, hyperactive agent detection, hadd	Dilley (2019), Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity: Cognition and Discipline, 150
device, dance, as mnemonic	Stavrianopoulou (2006), Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World, 54, 55
device, divine intervention, as plot	Pinheiro Bierl and Beck (2013), Anton Bierl? and Roger Beck?, Intende, Lector - Echoes of Myth, Religion and Ritual in the Ancient Novel, 57, 251 Pinheiro et al. (2012a), Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel, 36, 41, 43, 44, 193, 242
device, exempla, as rhetorical	Langlands (2018), Exemplary Ethics in Ancient Rome, 74, 102, 252, 324
device, fear, as intertextual	Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 113, 114
device, fear, as principle of government or ruling	Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 24, 25, 39, 48, 49, 50, 53, 54, 55, 82
device, hyperactive agent detection, hadd	Dilley (2019), Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity: Cognition and Discipline, 150
device, hypersensitive agency detection, hadd	Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 12, 13, 14, 229, 331
device, inscription, introductory rhetorical	Potter Suh and Holladay (2021), Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays, 629
device, metaphor, as exegetical	Niehoff (2011), Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria, 71
device, of open historiography, ancient and the rhetorical closure	Matthews (2010), Perfect Martyr: The Stoning of Stephen and the Construction of Christian Identity, 62
device, of pseudonymity, apocalyptic literature	Collins (2016), The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature, 33, 48, 49, 75, 138, 139, 155, 163, 169, 248, 340, 341, 342
device, of pseudonymity, revelation, apocalypse of john	Collins (2016), The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature, 340, 341, 342
device, remez, pl. rǝmāzīm, rhetorical	Zawanowska and Wilk (2022), The Character of David in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Warrior, Poet, Prophet and King, 113, 115
device, syntax, in the gospel of judas, imperfect verbs as narrative framing	Scopello (2008), The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
device, šibuṣ, pl. šibūṣīm, rhetorical	Zawanowska and Wilk (2022), The Character of David in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Warrior, Poet, Prophet and King, 111, 113, 115
devices, accuracy of transmission, mnemonic	Galinsky (2016), Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity, 305, 306
devices, grappling	Roller (2018), Disclosure and Discretion in Roman Astrology: Manilius and his Augustan Contemporaries, 139, 148
devices, in hagiography, rhetoric, rhetorical	Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019), Early Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus: From the Margins to the Mainstream, 110, 111, 116
devices, interlocking	Wilson (2012), The Sentences of Sextus, 47, 131
devices, motivational	Tite (2009), Valentinian Ethics and Paraenetic Discourse: Determining the Social Function of Moral Exhortation in Valentinian Christianity, 83, 84, 94, 121, 139, 140, 156, 177, 180, 181, 191, 201, 233, 280
devices, religion, and its	Segev (2017), Aristotle on Religion, 154
devices, rhetorical	Keener(2005), First-Second Corinthians, 4, 5, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32, 42, 47, 87, 92, 96, 100, 103, 107, 126, 130, 131, 132, 140, 175, 183, 188, 191, 199, 205, 211, 213, 216, 220, 224, 225, 228, 231, 233, 238, 240, 241, 242, 245 Nisula (2012), Augustine and the Functions of Concupiscence, 42, 43, 108, 123, 138, 178, 203, 250, 278, 319, 335, 339
devices, temple, as metaliterary	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 2, 3, 15, 16, 18, 93, 145, 146, 147, 203, 225, 243
rhetoric, device	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 111, 364

List of validated texts:

8 validated results for "device"

1. Hebrew Bible, Deuteronomy, 7.19 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • rhetorical devices • sensory experience,, as narrative structuring device

Found in books: Brakke, Satlow, Weitzman (2005), Religion and the Self in Antiquity. 125; Keener(2005), First-Second Corinthians, 242

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7.19 הַמַּסֹּת הַגְּדֹלֹת אֲשֶׁר־רָאוּ עֵינֶיךָ וְהָאֹתֹת וְהַמֹּפְתִים וְהַיָּד הַחֲזָקָה וְהַזְּרֹעַ הַנְּטוּיָה אֲשֶׁר הוֹצִאֲךָ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ כֵּן־יַעֲשֶׂה יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לְכָל־הָעַמִּים אֲשֶׁר־אַתָּה יָרֵא מִפְּנֵיהֶם׃'' None

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7.19 the great trials which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out; so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the peoples of whom thou art afraid.'' None

2. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 1.27 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • hermeneutical devices (midot), a fortiori argument • rhetorical devices

Found in books: Keener(2005), First-Second Corinthians, 132; Shemesh (2009), Halakhah in the Making: The Development of Jewish Law from Qumran to the Rabbis. 163, 164

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1.27 וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים אֶת־הָאָדָם בְּצַלְמוֹ בְּצֶלֶם אֱלֹהִים בָּרָא אֹתוֹ זָכָר וּנְקֵבָה בָּרָא אֹתָם׃'' None

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1.27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.'' None

3. Hebrew Bible, Daniel, 12.2-12.3 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Apocalyptic literature, device of pseudonymity • rhetorical devices

Found in books: Collins (2016), The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature, 139; Keener(2005), First-Second Corinthians, 131

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12.2 וְרַבִּים מִיְּשֵׁנֵי אַדְמַת־עָפָר יָקִיצוּ אֵלֶּה לְחַיֵּי עוֹלָם וְאֵלֶּה לַחֲרָפוֹת לְדִרְאוֹן עוֹלָם׃ ^12.3 וְהַמַּשְׂכִּלִים יַזְהִרוּ כְּזֹהַר הָרָקִיעַ וּמַצְדִּיקֵי הָרַבִּים כַּכּוֹכָבִים לְעוֹלָם וָעֶד׃'' None

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12.2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence. ^12.3 And they that are wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn the many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.'' None

4. Septuagint, 1 Maccabees, 1.47 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Stylistic and rhetorical devices, pleonasm • rhetorical devices

Found in books: Keener(2005), First-Second Corinthians, 191; Moxon (2017), Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective. 80

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1.47 to build altars and sacred precincts and shrines for idols, to sacrifice swine and unclean animals,'' None

5. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.749, 15.875-15.876 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • rhetorical devices • temple, as metaliterary devices

Found in books: Keener(2005), First-Second Corinthians, 131; Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 3

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15.749 in sidus vertere novum stellamque comantem, ^15.875 parte tamen meliore mei super alta perennis ^15.876 astra ferar, nomenque erit indelebile nostrum,'' None

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15.749 he charged me with attempting the foul crime. ^15.875 But first he veiled his horns with laurel, which ^15.876 betokens peace. Then, standing on a mound'' None

6. New Testament, Romans, 1.22, 3.1 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • rhetoric,device • rhetorical devices

Found in books: Keener(2005), First-Second Corinthians, 28, 130; Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 111, 364

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1.22 φάσκοντες εἶναι σοφοὶ ἐμωράνθησαν, ^3.1 Τί οὖν τὸ περισσὸν τοῦ Ἰουδαίου, ἢ τίς ἡ ὠφελία τῆς περιτομῆς;'' None

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1.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, ^3.1 Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? '' None

7. Vergil, Aeneis, 6.847-6.848
Tagged with subjects: • Hypersensitive Agency Detection Device (HADD) • temple, as metaliterary devices

Found in books: Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 13; Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 18, 243

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6.847 Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, ^6.848 credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore voltus,'' None

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6.847 Lo! on the left and right at feast reclined ^6.848 Are other blessed souls, whose chorus sings '' None

8. Vergil, Georgics, 3.34
Tagged with subjects: • Hypersensitive Agency Detection Device (HADD) • temple, as metaliterary devices

Found in books: Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 13; Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 2, 3, 15, 203, 225, 243

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3.34 Stabunt et Parii lapides, spirantia signa,'' None

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3.34 of gold and massive ivory on the door'' None

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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