Classics and the Bible: Hospitality and RecognitionBloomsbury Academic, 22/11/2007 - 192 páginas "Classics and the Bible" looks at story-patterns and themes which Greek and Latin literature shares with the Hebrew scriptures and the New Testament. Direct influence or a common source can explain some similarities, but uncannily parallel plots and forms of expression seem more often to occur independently. Classical and biblical texts constantly illuminate each other. Hospitality and recognition are central themes in both traditions, and also metaphors about the relation between them. Classical and biblical authors alike tell stories which need to be read in the light of other stories. The relation between the present and the heroic past is crucial to both traditions, and both raise fundamental questions about the relation of text and reader. The first three chapters consider the subject from the classical side: Homer, the Greek tragedians and Plato, and Virgil; the fourth turns to the New Testament; and the fifth to aspects of later reception. Readers should ideally be equipped with a Bible, English translations of a few major classical authors, and an open mind. |
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... Genesis cited Homer for the idea of gods appearing as strangers from far - off lands . " In seventeenth - century Oxford , the classical and biblical scholar Zachary Bogan wrote his Homerus Hebraizon ( 1658 ) as a diversion when ill ...
... Genesis 18 , this is a narrative of great resonance . Somewhere in its past is a folktale about a river god who accosts travellers but must vanish before dawn . Israel is the name both of an individual and of a nation , and the life of ...
... Genesis we think of Joseph , especially in relation to Judah among his older brothers , and another account of a journey to a far country and of eventual return : it is now the father in the parable rather than the Prodigal himself who ...
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History Tragedy and Philosophy | 36 |
Virgil Between Two Worlds | 76 |
Foolishness to Greeks | 113 |
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