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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... gods in Homeric theoxeny stories , observing individuals and testing their behaviour . God asks if he has come across the pious Job . Satan scornfully replies that piety is easy for the rich , and God accepts the challenge that his ...
... gods of traditional polytheism . He sees justice rather than sacrifice as the key to divine favour , and the gods as wholly beneficent to mankind . The description of his daimonion , the divine voice deterring him from wrongdoing ...
... Gods of Greece ' . This was a lament for the Greek deities who had died because something in the human spirit had died : nature had once been alive with gods , and the sun seen as the golden chariot of Helios . Scientists explaining it ...
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History Tragedy and Philosophy | 36 |
Virgil Between Two Worlds | 76 |
Foolishness to Greeks | 113 |
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