| Sumario: | In the 20th century, the philosopher Charles Taylor argues that the subject has come to be identified with modernity.[1] While Taylor acknowledges the crystallizing contribution of Locke and others such as Descartes, he claims that this modern self can already be traced back to Greco-Roman antiquity, especially to Augustine's transformation of platonic philosophy. Within the Humanities we want to acknowledge important work in Classics,[16] Early Modern History,[17] and Philosophy.[18] In our own field, the work of Janowski and Newsom has been transformative. Footnotes 1 Taylor, I Sources of the Self i . 2 Janowski, I Anthropologie des Alten Testaments i ; Newsom, "Sin Consciousness." This thematic issue of Dead Sea Discoveries addresses a fundamental issue in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, namely, the formation of the subject.
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