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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... tragedy interspersed with two biblical ones . The final section takes a different direction , looking at similarities between the figures of Socrates and Jesus , and at Plato in relation to New Testament texts . Homer underlies all ...
... tragedy does : often two are in conversation , though a third may be listening , as Rebecca listens to the conversation between Isaac and Esau ( Gen. 27 : 5 ) .5 Passages of high poetry punctuate Old Testament narrative , and like ...
... tragedy.103 Recogni- tion itself implies the recovery of previous knowledge : we saw it internalised in Achilles ... tragedy in order to supersede it as tragedy had itself superseded epic . The eschatological myth which ends many ...
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History Tragedy and Philosophy | 36 |
Virgil Between Two Worlds | 76 |
Foolishness to Greeks | 113 |
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