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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... human sympathy . Does Deborah's song offer an exception ? After recounting the killing of Sisera , it continues : Out of the window she peered , the mother of Sisera gazed through the lattice : ' Why is his chariot so long in coming ...
... human justice is too limited a construct to apply to the divine.65 This echoes what many interpreters have found in Sophocles : E.R. Dodds wrote that the poet ' did not believe , or did not always believe , that the gods are in any human ...
... human intellect ) , and Chrysippus , a later head of the same school , had said that it was childish to represent gods in human shape.52 Paul uses language and arguments already forged by Greek - speaking Jews to commend their religion ...
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History Tragedy and Philosophy | 36 |
Virgil Between Two Worlds | 76 |
Foolishness to Greeks | 113 |
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