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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Tulokset 1 - 3 kokonaismäärästä 24
... light is needed in the New Jerusalem ( Rev. 22 : 5 ) . The beacon light seen by the Watchman at the beginning of Agamemnon is echoed by the torchlight procession which ends Eumenides . We sense in each case that a vast journey has been ...
... light of later events : as usual in ancient literature , the full effect depends on knowing the story already . The portrait of the young Alcibiades in the Symposium is coloured by our awareness of his chequ- ered later career . The ...
... light ' ; and there was light . ( Gen. 1 : 3 ) The splendour of these words bursts upon us like the light they describe : it is for this that they are quoted , in a way unique in any pagan writer , by the author of the critical treatise ...
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History Tragedy and Philosophy | 36 |
Virgil Between Two Worlds | 76 |
Foolishness to Greeks | 113 |
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