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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... central subject : it expresses the glory and exhilaration of war no less than the pathos . Vera Brittain , an English contemporary of Simone Weil and later a prominent peace campaigner , wrote from her experience of service in Malta in ...
... central Rome ) , was elevated to a central role as the emperor's own role- model and neighbour ( the god's new temple on the Palatine was next to his house , with the preserved hut of Romulus on the other side ) .51 Apollo became a ...
... central character who typically sees at a climactic moment the true pattern of his life . In the second generation of Romantic poets , Keats explores ideas which echo those we saw in " Tintern Abbey ' . He is both reader and poet in his ...
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History Tragedy and Philosophy | 36 |
Virgil Between Two Worlds | 76 |
Foolishness to Greeks | 113 |
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