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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... familiar from Greek epic and tragedy , and from its analysis by Aristotle : there is here no moment of insight through token or detection , no reversal or denouement.16 Much is left unsaid . In contrast to the familiar atmosphere of the ...
... familiar to Roman readers . " The kindly river god Tiberinus stays his stream to make their task easier : Warde Fowler compared the crossing of the Jordan , stopped from flowing so that it may be crossed by the Israelites ( Josh . 3 ...
... familiar past to the reader ) . The gleaming weapons that will one day be rusting in the ground are the obverse of the golden buildings that may one day again give place to a field of cattle . Aeneas encouraging his comrades in a storm ...
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History Tragedy and Philosophy | 36 |
Virgil Between Two Worlds | 76 |
Foolishness to Greeks | 113 |
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