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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... leaves as well as the leaves that fall to the ground like dead warriors . Richard Jenkyns shows how this famous simile relates to others with a similar theme , creating a powerfully complex overall effect.63 In Book 2 when the Greek ...
... leaves : Mimnermus in the seventh century ( probably alluding directly to the Iliad ) refocuses it to express the brevity of each man's youth before the miseries of old age . Ecclesiasticus ( written perhaps in the second century BC ) ...
... leaves that death itself undescribed . Like the Aeneid , it ends in a manner ostensibly puzzling and unsatisfactory , but requiring the perspective given by later events . Like the Oresteia , it leaves us with a sense of vast distance ...
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History Tragedy and Philosophy | 36 |
Virgil Between Two Worlds | 76 |
Foolishness to Greeks | 113 |
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