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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... earlier texts because they see earlier events re - enacted . In Virgil and in the New Testament alike we find ( within a century or so , spanning the turn of the era ) a particularly influential reworking , a radical re - appropriation ...
... earlier texts . Callimachus : Hecale The master text for Virgil is Homer , but Homer as mediated through practically all significant literature written in between : Greek history , tragedy and philosophy , earlier Latin epic , and not ...
... earlier books . There are nonetheless two important differences between Virgil's tech- nique and biblical typology ... earlier character is not always to present Aeneas as a superior substitute . On occasion he may be shown by ...
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History Tragedy and Philosophy | 36 |
Virgil Between Two Worlds | 76 |
Foolishness to Greeks | 113 |
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