Parrhesia

Contents

List of ContributorsIi

1 Introduction

 Bert-Jan Lietaert Peerbolte

Part 1: Parrhesia in Antiquity

2 The Performative Meaning of the Word παρρησία in Ancient Greek and in the Greek Bible

 Kyriakoula Papademetriou

3 “Deine Absicht ist es ja, die Freiheit zurückzuholen und neu aufzurichten” (Paneg. 78,3). ‘Freiheit’ in Plinius Secundus’ Panegyricus

 Manfred Lang

4 Παρρησία in Erzähltexten: Handlungsschemata bei Lukian und in der Apostelgeschichte

 Nils Neumann

Part 2: Instances of Parrhesia in the Early Modern Era

5 Empowering Catholics in a Protestant Republic: Life and Works of Apostolic Vicar John van Neercassel (1626–1686)

 Dirk Jan Schoon

6 The Pirate of the New Testament: Wettsteins’s Comment on Acts 24.5

 Bastian Lemitz

7 The Freedom to Change: The Text of the New Testament? Wettstein’s Treatment of Mark

 Jan Krans and Silvia Castelli 

Part 3 : Instances of Parrhesia in the Modern Era

8 “To Speak Your Word with All Boldness”: Freedom of Expression in Dutch Reformed Churches

 Leon van den Broeke

9 Silence is Golden: Freedom of Speech and the Old Catholic Observer at the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965)

 Peter-Ben Smit