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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... reader are projected onto the hero . The Tiber is new to Aeneas , but familiar ( if with changed aspect ) to Roman readers . Another strong impetus to read the Aeneid as the story of a return to a known place is the fact that it ...
... readers . As we have seen often in classical literature , the emotions and experiences of the characters are also ours . The two are shown a new trajectory in and from the scriptures , and the reader likewise sees a pattern not just in ...
... reader , in recognising and imaginatively recreating the scene and the feelings described , and also in revisiting this ( or any ) poem at different times in his or her life . " Tintern Abbey ' is addressed to Coleridge , whose central ...
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