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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... Herodotus have the wars between Greece and Persia as their climax . The first campaign , culminating in the battle of Marathon in 490 BC , coincided approximately with the historian's birth , and was followed by the major invasion led ...
... Herodotus wrote single - handed ( using oral tradi- tion , some documents , and his own experience ) , whereas the Deuteronomic historian was working with texts which themselves already had a significant history . Herodotus nonetheless ...
... Herodotus . Polycrates the sixth - century tyrant of Samos , enjoying an alarming degree of good fortune , is advised by the Egyptian king Amasis to throw away a valued possession lest he incur divine jealousy ( 3.40-3 ) . He throws a ...
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