Classics and the Bible: Hospitality and RecognitionBloomsbury Academic, 22.11.2007 - 192 sivua "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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... Greek proverbial wisdom of looking to the end and not judging too soon . Herodotus and the Old Testament The Greeks and the Israelites pioneered the writing of history : Roman historiography is a late development , dependent on Greek ...
... Greek plays is the most sure - fire success in the classroom . I remember a usually reticent sixth - form class stung into passionate debate when asked whether they sided with the authoritarian Pentheus or the subversive Dionysus . When ...
... Greek for Jews who could not read them in the original language , to create the Septuagint . That name derives from a legend preserved in the Letter of Aristeas , a Jewish Greek text probably of the second century BC . According to its ...
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