 | Rosemary Radford Ruether - 1998 - 384 Seiten
...Institutiones 3.19), the Greek male gives thanks that he was born a human being and not an animal, a man and not a woman, a Greek and not a barbarian. A parallel Jewish thanksgiving quoted by Rabbi Judah ben El'ai (150 CE) directs the Jewish male to... | |
 | Debra Higgs Strickland - 2003 - 348 Seiten
...lassical Theories, Monstrous Races, &c Sin l Three things are luci:\: To be bom a human and not a beast, A man and not a woman, A Greek and not a barbarian. — Socrates ENEMIES OF THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH not only followed the wrong religion; they were also literally... | |
 | Simon Goldhill - 2004 - 110 Seiten
...with a characteristically Greek sense of polarity, 'I thank god I was born a human and not an animal, a man and not a woman, a Greek and not a barbarian.') So, in Athens, only adult males could be citizens (women were not even known as Athenians' but as 'women... | |
 | Eliezer Segal - 2005 - 326 Seiten
...allegedly in the habit of thanking God for three things: "that I was born a human and not a beast; a man and not a woman; a Greek and not a Barbarian." Is it possible, then, that our problematic blessing is not even an original Jewish one, but merely... | |
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He used to thank the gods for three things ; that he was born a reasonable creature, and not a beast ; a man, and not a woman ; a Greek, and not a Barbarian. 
