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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... role as guardians of the city , ready to defend it as necessary by resuming their traditional powers . Ancient literature set in a heroic past depends upon complex interplay between the time the story is set and the time the work was ...
... role as husband , father and king . Oedipus also discovers himself in those guises , but in a hideously distorted way . In the Odyssey we infer that Telemachus will in due time successfully take over his father's role : he will be able ...
... role as the emperor's own role- model and neighbour ( the god's new temple on the Palatine was next to his house , with the preserved hut of Romulus on the other side ) .51 Apollo became a symbol of the new age , the iconography of his ...
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History Tragedy and Philosophy | 36 |
Virgil Between Two Worlds | 76 |
Foolishness to Greeks | 113 |
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