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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Hospitality and Recognition John Taylor. 40 Paul in Athens Biblical and classical themes intersect most powerfully when Paul arrives in Athens . His visit is invested with high symbolic importance : a decisive stage in the story , and in ...
... Paul will of course have seen pagan shrines elsewhere , but Athens had been famously religious already in the time of Sophocles ( Oedipus at Colonus 1006-7 ) and was crowded with statues and dedications . According to the formulaic ...
... Paul's innocence ( 27:44 ) . Landing in Malta , they are welcomed by the inhabitants . A viper fastens itself on Paul's hand as they gather firewood : the islanders initially take this as a bad omen , but when he shakes it off into the ...
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