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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... sense has also started in Athens , and so circles round to where it began . Light is an obvious symbol of rescue and hope , an overarching image in the trilogy as it also is in the Bible , from Genesis through Isaiah to John and ...
... sense already present . The Arcadians are making their yearly sacrifice to Hercules . This is described in terms which evoke the Roman ritual familiar in Virgil's time at the Ara Maxima ( Greatest Altar ' ) : the fullest of the many ...
... sense of familiar passages of scripture ( and also the true sense of earlier sayings of Jesus himself ) , as characters in Herodotus or Sophocles grasp only with hindsight the meaning of oracular pronouncements . A pattern in history is ...
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Virgil Between Two Worlds | 76 |
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