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subject	book bibliographic info
godlike	Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 21, 28, 90, 129, 131, 154, 161, 162, 165, 168, 169, 173, 179, 180
godlike, behavior of romans	Mueller (2002), Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, 151, 152, 153, 154, 162
godlike, intellect, as	Segev (2017), Aristotle on Religion, 107
godlike, wise person	Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 51, 210
godlike/upper, part of appetite, see appetite	d'Hoine and Martijn (2017), All From One: A Guide to Proclus, 252, 265
godlikeness	Hirsch-Luipold (2022), Plutarch and the New Testament in Their Religio-Philosophical Contexts, 88, 90, 102, 103, 104 Joosse (2021), Olympiodorus of Alexandria: Exegete, Teacher, Platonic Philosopher, 36, 37, 39, 48, 66, 162 Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 32, 33, 35, 44, 54, 55, 60, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 98, 102, 119 Pevarello (2013), The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism. 50, 103, 108, 118, 123, 195, 200
godlikeness, emotions, and	Champion (2022), Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education, 71, 74, 126
godlikeness, epistemology, and	Champion (2022), Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 79, 82, 83, 84, 88, 89, 91, 93, 94, 100, 101, 106, 112, 113, 126, 127, 138, 147, 148, 163, 164, 168, 207, 220
godlikeness, homeric	Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 8, 12, 14, 18
godlikeness, homoiôsis theôi, ὁμοίωσις θεῷ‎	d'Hoine and Martijn (2017), All From One: A Guide to Proclus, 61, 134, 193, 202, 223, 224, 227, 232, 233, 234, 237, 318
godlikeness, homoiôsis theôi, ὁμοίωσις θεῷ‎, of ideal state	d'Hoine and Martijn (2017), All From One: A Guide to Proclus, 287
godlikeness, in chaldaean oracles	d'Hoine and Martijn (2017), All From One: A Guide to Proclus, 232
godlikeness, platonic	Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 38, 47, 55, 56, 57, 98, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184
godlikeness, platonism/plato, on	Champion (2022), Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education, 71, 72, 73, 74, 207, 208
godlikeness, socrates’ divine sign	Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 94, 96, 97
godlikeness, stoic	Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 77, 78, 79, 80, 82, 83, 171, 172, 173, 201, 202, 203
godlikeness, xenophanean	Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 9, 49

List of validated texts:

4 validated results for "godlikeness"

1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 9.6 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Godlikeness • Moses as divine/godlike

Found in books: Pevarello (2013), The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism. 200; Ruzer (2020), Early Jewish Messianism in the New Testament: Reflections in the Dim Mirror, 151

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9.6 שֹׁפֵךְ דַּם הָאָדָם בָּאָדָם דָּמוֹ יִשָּׁפֵךְ כִּי בְּצֶלֶם אֱלֹהִים עָשָׂה אֶת־הָאָדָם׃'' None

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9.6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made He man.'' None

2. Plato, Timaeus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Godlikeness • godlikeness, Platonic

Found in books: Joosse (2021), Olympiodorus of Alexandria: Exegete, Teacher, Platonic Philosopher, 66; Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 56, 57

^41a τούτων, ἐκ δὲ Κρόνου καὶ Ῥέας Ζεὺς Ἥρα τε καὶ πάντες ὅσους ἴσμεν ἀδελφοὺς λεγομένους αὐτῶν, ἔτι τε τούτων ἄλλους ἐκγόνους· ἐπεὶ δʼ οὖν πάντες ὅσοι τε περιπολοῦσιν φανερῶς καὶ ὅσοι φαίνονται καθʼ ὅσον ἂν ἐθέλωσιν θεοὶ γένεσιν ἔσχον, λέγει πρὸς αὐτοὺς ὁ τόδε τὸ πᾶν γεννήσας τάδε—'^41b δεθὲν πᾶν λυτόν, τό γε μὴν καλῶς ἁρμοσθὲν καὶ ἔχον εὖ λύειν ἐθέλειν κακοῦ· διʼ ἃ καὶ ἐπείπερ γεγένησθε, ἀθάνατοι μὲν οὐκ ἐστὲ οὐδʼ ἄλυτοι τὸ πάμπαν, οὔτι μὲν δὴ λυθήσεσθέ γε οὐδὲ τεύξεσθε θανάτου μοίρας, τῆς ἐμῆς βουλήσεως μείζονος ἔτι δεσμοῦ καὶ κυριωτέρου λαχόντες ἐκείνων οἷς ὅτʼ ἐγίγνεσθε συνεδεῖσθε. νῦν οὖν ὃ λέγω πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐνδεικνύμενος, μάθετε. θνητὰ ἔτι γένη λοιπὰ τρία ἀγέννητα· τούτων δὲ μὴ γενομένων οὐρανὸς ἀτελὴς ἔσται· τὰ γὰρ ἅπαντʼ ἐν ^41c αὑτῷ γένη ζῴων οὐχ ἕξει, δεῖ δέ, εἰ μέλλει τέλεος ἱκανῶς εἶναι. διʼ ἐμοῦ δὲ ταῦτα γενόμενα καὶ βίου μετασχόντα θεοῖς ἰσάζοιτʼ ἄν· ἵνα οὖν θνητά τε ᾖ τό τε πᾶν τόδε ὄντως ἅπαν ᾖ, τρέπεσθε κατὰ φύσιν ὑμεῖς ἐπὶ τὴν τῶν ζῴων δημιουργίαν, μιμούμενοι τὴν ἐμὴν δύναμιν περὶ τὴν ὑμετέραν γένεσιν. καὶ καθʼ ὅσον μὲν αὐτῶν ἀθανάτοις ὁμώνυμον εἶναι προσήκει, θεῖον λεγόμενον ἡγεμονοῦν τε ἐν αὐτοῖς τῶν ἀεὶ δίκῃ καὶ ὑμῖν ἐθελόντων ἕπεσθαι, σπείρας καὶ ὑπαρξάμενος ^41d ἐγὼ παραδώσω· τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν ὑμεῖς, ἀθανάτῳ θνητὸν προσυφαίνοντες, ἀπεργάζεσθε ζῷα καὶ γεννᾶτε τροφήν τε διδόντες αὐξάνετε καὶ φθίνοντα πάλιν δέχεσθε. ' None

^41a and of Cronos and Rhea were born Zeus and Hera and all those who are, as we know, called their brethren; and of these again, other descendants.'^41b yet to will to dissolve that which is fairly joined together and in good case were the deed of a wicked one. Wherefore ye also, seeing that ye were generated, are not wholly immortal or indissoluble, yet in no wise shall ye be dissolved nor incur the doom of death, seeing that in my will ye possess a bond greater and more sovereign than the bonds wherewith, at your birth, ye were bound together. Now, therefore, what I manifest and declare unto you do ye learn. Three mortal kinds still remain ungenerated; but if these come not into being the Heaven will be imperfect; for it will not contain within itself the whole sum of the hinds of living creatures, yet contain them it must if ^41c it is to be fully perfect. But if by my doing these creatures came into existence and partook of life, they would be made equal unto gods; in order, therefore, that they may be mortal and that this World-all may be truly All, do ye turn yourselves, as Nature directs, to the work of fashioning these living creatures, imitating the power showed by me in my generating of you. Now so much of them as it is proper to designate ’immortal,’ the part we call divine which rules supreme in those who are fain to follow justice always and yourselves, that part I will deliver unto you when I have sown it and given it origin. ^41d For the rest, do ye weave together the mortal with the immortal, and thereby fashion and generate living creatures, and give them food that they may grow, and when they waste away receive them to yourselves again. ' None

3. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Godlikeness

Found in books: Joosse (2021), Olympiodorus of Alexandria: Exegete, Teacher, Platonic Philosopher, 39, 66; Pevarello (2013), The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism. 195

4. None, None, nan (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • godlikeness (becoming godlike) • intellect, as godlike

Found in books: Sattler (2021), Ancient Ethics and the Natural World, 94; Segev (2017), Aristotle on Religion, 107

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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