This study aims to construct the legal rights and duties of slave-owners in the first century AD as context for the exhortations in the New Testament directed at slave-owners. The central theoretical argument has been that the legal context of the first readers is essential for a valid interpretation of these exhortations, and that taking into account this legal context makes a valid interpretation possible. The study applies philological and comparative methods as well as analysis, interpretation and synthesis of the collected material. Chapter 1 provides an outline of the study. Chapter 2 first defines a search filter to delimit the vast collection of material on slavery in antiquity, and then describes ancient slavery as general context to the texts and the New Testament exhortations analysed in subsequent chapters. In chapter 3 the legal context has been constructed by way of analysis of primary texts from Greek, Roman, and Jewish law. Chapter 4 deals with primary texts on the philosophical underpinnings of slavery in the three worlds under investigation. In chapter 5 Greek, Roman, and Jewish primary texts dealing with the conduct of slave-owners in respect of their slaves have been analysed. In chapter 6 the New Testament exhortations to slave-owners have been analysed utilising the contexts constructed in the preceeding chapters. Chapter 7 summarises the findings and conclusions of the study. The study has concluded the New Testament writers’ acceptance of the legal and social reality of slavery in the first century AD. Their writings, however, contain unique features with a direct bearing on the rights and duties of slave-owners namely their persistent placement of the slave-owner – slave relationship in the context of the believing slave-owner and/or slave’s relationship with Jesus Christ. Within this framework, the study points towards diverging viewpoints within the New Testament on a continuum between social separation and acculturation. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Greek))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011

Thesis (PH. D.)--University of Chicago, 1906. / Also paged: 212-325. "Reprinted from Historical and linguistic studies. Second series, vol. II, part 3." Also published as: The Legal terms common to the Macedonian inscriptions and the New Testament. Bibliography: p. 9. Includes bibliographical references and index. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis--Copenhagen. / Summary in English. Bibliography: p. 234-238.

Thesis--Bonn. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-269) and index.

A pesquisa pretendeu encontrar na experiência jurídica grega dos séc. VI a IV a.C. um novo modal normativo, para além dos clássicos permitido, proibido, facultado, cujo conteúdo se emoldurasse num caráter constitutivo. A partir dos estudos do direito grego desenvolvidos desde o final do séc. XIX, especialmente daqueles trabalhados pelos atuais scholars europeus e norte-americanos, buscou-se resgatar nesta experiência uma forna de pensar o conteúdo normativo de modo diverso do presente, tentando escavar na leitura da norma e no relacionamento dos homens com o fenômeno jurídico uma maneira de ver o direito enquanto direito constitutivo de virtudes e de subjetividades austeras. Para tanto, foram fundadas algumas premilinares essenciais, capazes de justificar o porquê dos estudos sobre o direito grego sobretudo no Brasil ; a necessidade de olhar a experiência clássica como algo radicalmente diverso e novo experiência exterior e não recobro histórico; bem como o método arqueogenealógico condutor da aproximação com os antigos. Em seguida, foram levantadas as principais contribuições da experiência jurídica grega, do seguinte modo: a análise da juridicidade (norma e jusracionalidade), da estrutura deste jurídico (instituições, materialidade e processualidade), e do modo de agir/ser normativo (educação jurídica, jurista e essência do direito). Ao final, aspirou-se definir os traços desta forma de ver a experiência jurídica grega enquanto direito constitutivo: uma maneira peculiar de ler a filosofia do direito enquanto saber constitutivo, os contornos deste direito bem como os seus vetores epistemológicos e seu fim / The research has intended to find in Greek juridical experience between the VI and IV centuries b.C a new normative modal as an exclusive moral issue normative modal beyond the classical allowed, forbiden and granted. Drawing heavily on the current North-American and European scholars and also since by those started at the bottom of XIX century, the research has tried to dig up in the norm and the relationship between citizents and that one, a particular manner of think law as constitutive law of virtues and austere subjectives. After has founded some essential questions: the reason of study greek law namely in Brazil and the construction of the thesis greek approach like the archeogenealogical method and the outside philosophical experience, the research has defined the substance of ancient greek law: starting from the singular structure of law and its applications, passing by the rationality, the basic material e procedure rules and arriving at normative way of acting and being. Finally, the research has attempted to define the features of this way of looking at ancient greek law experience as constitutive law, by analyzing a particular way of read philosophy of law as constitutive thinking, the outlinings of this law and the epistemological vector and its bounds as well.

L'intérêt de l'enfant est une notion bien connue du droit de la famille des Etats membres du Conseil de l'Europe. C'est sans doute le cas du droit grec de la famille qui érige l'intérêt de l'enfant en règle fondamentale. Or, ce principe cher au droit interne, visant la protection de l'enfant, franchit les frontières nationales et obtient un caractère européen grâce à la jurisprudence européenne concernant la vie familiale. En effet, en statuant sur les « contentieux familiaux européens », le juge de Strasbourg consacre ledit principe, met en avant sa valeur indubitable et forge son contenu de base. Sans imposer d'évaluations uniformes de l'intérêt de l'enfant, la Cour EDH pose les lignes directrices de sa détermination. Toutefois, malgré le dynamisme de la construction jurisprudentielle européenne portant sur l'intérêt de l'enfant dans le cadre de la garantie de la vie familiale, en Grèce l'appréciation dudit intérêt reste pour le moment une question interne. Il n'y a pas de contact entre l'ordre juridique grec et le système de la Convention, puisque le premier ne se réfère pas systématiquement au second et la jurisprudence européenne contre l'Etat grec est isolée / The interests of the child is a well known concept in family law of Council of Europe Member States. Greek family law is not an exception to this rule: the interests of the child is one of its fundamental principles. However, this valuable concept of internal law, aiming at children's protection, has crossed the national borders and gained a European personality thanks to the ECHR case – law concerning family life. While ruling on these cases, Strasbourg Court underlines the significance of the notion and has elaborated its main guidelines without imposing identical evaluations.Despite the activity of the ECHR on this field, interest of child approach is a strictly national issue in Greece. The lack of contact between the Greek law and the ECHR case – law is more than obvious. The former nearly ignores the latter, while the relevant cases against Greece in this area remain few.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Passau, 2003.

This thesis examines the institutional design and the procedures regulating the decree-making in the poleis of the Classical and Hellenistic periods. The main contention of this thesis is that Greek decree-making is to be conceived as the result of a multi-layered system of interaction and delegation of deliberative authority among different institutions: councils, officials, assemblies and lawcourts. My thesis argues, therefore, that decree-making procedures were specifically designed to implement the concept of 'divided power', a value shared by both democracies and non-democratic regimes, and to shape the collective behaviour of the citizens when acting as decision-makers within the institutions. By adopting models from the political sciences, my thesis bridges the gap between institutional approaches to political decision-making and more recent approaches that have stressed the role of values and ideology as key factors to understand ancient Greek politics. Chapter 1 lays out the methodology of the thesis informed by the New Historical Institutionalism. Chapter 2 analyses the practice of delegation of power from the Athenian Assembly to the Athenian Council in order to enact additional measures. The careful study of the delegation-clauses sheds light on the administrative power of the Council by demonstrating that the Council played a proper policy-making role through the enactment of a decree, which was the product of Council's expertise in defined matters, such as religious affairs, foreign policy and the navy. Chapter 3 builds on the findings of the previous chapter, and shows the workings and development of delegation-clauses to the Council in two examples from outside Athens, Mytilene and Megalopolis over the longue durée. Chapter 4 deals with the deliberative procedures of Hellenistic Sparta. The Spartan 'divided power' envisaged that the Gerousia shared the probouleutic power with the ephors who could independently submit the bill to the Assembly. The Gerousia, however, held the power of nomophylakia and could veto the final decree. This chapter shows that divided power and the need of legal stability were addressed by Spartan institutions, but with different results because of the wider powers of officials in the decree-making. This chapter introduces the important issue of the balance between people's deliberation and stability of the legal order, which form an important focus of chapters 5 and 6. Chapter 5 discusses the role played by legal procedure of the adeia in fifth-century deliberative decision-making in the Assembly. This chapter provides a new comprehensive account of this legal institution. Adeia instituted a pre-nomothetic procedure, according to which the Assembly could change an entrenched piece of legislation or decree without clashing with the nomothetic ideology. Chapter 6 examines the relationship between deliberation and judicial review in the Greek poleis. The first section discusses the Athenian graphe paranomon, the public charge against an illegal decree. A thorough analysis of the legal procedure and of the institutional design shows that deliberative decisions were made within the framework of the rule of law and the graphe paranomon enforced this principle. This did not imply an institutional prominence of the lawcourts in the Athenian decision-making. The lawcourts performed an important role in the deliberative process through providing a safeguard of legal consistency by adding the legal expertise of the judges to the general rationale of the decree-making. The second part of the chapter is dedicated to the discussion of evidence of judicial review from outside Athens and the multifaceted role of the Hellenistic practice of appointing foreign judges in adjudicating public lawsuits, and especially in the judicial review of decrees.

Thesis (Habilitation)--Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-321) and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2004. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 174-181).