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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... Bible have dramatic qualities : narratives progress through successive scenes to denouement , and char- acters pass from ignorance to knowledge . The book of Job comes closest in formal shape to a play , but Old Testament stories ...
... Old Testament likewise presents God as sovereign simul- taneously of the universe and of his own people Israel , and the New Testament constantly puts localised events in a cosmic perspective . Both the Bible and the Oresteia begin and ...
... old rather than in prophecy created for the occasion is less stark than it may seem . The perception of events as fore - ordained is intrinsically retrospective . The Old Testament passages traditionally cited as referring to Jesus are ...
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History Tragedy and Philosophy | 36 |
Virgil Between Two Worlds | 76 |
Foolishness to Greeks | 113 |
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