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Moral Infringement and Repair in Antiquity, is a series of publications related to a project on Dynamics of Moral Repair in Antiquity, run by Thomas Kazen and Rikard Roitto between 2017 and 2021, and funded by the Swedish Research Council. The volumes contain stand-alone articles and serve as supplements to the main outcome of the project, the volume Interpersonal Infringement and Moral Repair: Revenge, Compensation and Forgiveness in the Ancient World, forthcoming on Mohr Siebeck in 2023.
Supplement 3: Forgiveness, contains four articles and chapters by Rikard Roitto, republished in accordance with the publishers' general conditions for author reuse, or by special permission.
1. The Polyvalence of aphiemi and the Two Cognitive Frames of Forgiveness in the Synoptic
Gospels
2. Forgiveness, Ritual and Social Identity in Matthew: Obliging Forgiveness
3. Practices of Confession, Intercession and Forgiveness in 1 John 1.9; 5.16
4. Forgiveness of the Sinless: A Classic Contradiction in 1 John in the Light of Contemporary Forgiveness Research
About the author
Rikard Roitto is associate professor of New Testament Studies at Stockholm School of Theology (University College Stockholm). His previous publications include Behaving as a Christ-Believer: A Cognitive Perspective on Identity and Behavior Norms in Ephesians (2011) and numerous articles with a socio-cognitive perspective. He is an editor of the Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual (2018) and Social and Cognitive Perspectives on the Sermon on the Mount (2021), as well as a Swedish anthology on technotheology.
