Does the New Testament Imitate Homer? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Does the New Testament Imitate Homer? write by Dennis R. MacDonald. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Does the New Testament Imitate Homer? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. div In this provocative challenge to prevailing views of New Testament sources, Dennis R. MacDonald argues that the origins of passages in the book of Acts are to be found not in early Christian legends but in the epics of Homer. MacDonald focuses on four passages in the book of Acts, examines their potential parallels in the Iliad, and concludes that the author of Acts composed them using famous scenes in Homer’s work as a model. Tracing the influence of passages from the Iliad on subsequent ancient literature, MacDonald shows how the story generated a vibrant, mimetic literary tradition long before Luke composed the Acts. Luke could have expected educated readers to recognize his transformation of these tales and to see that the Christian God and heroes were superior to Homeric gods and heroes. Building upon and extending the analytic methods of his earlier book, The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark, MacDonald opens an original and promising appreciation not only of Acts but also of the composition of early Christian narrative in general. /DIV
Does the New Testament Imitate Homer?
Does the New Testament Imitate Homer? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Does the New Testament Imitate Homer? write by Dennis Ronald MacDonald. This book was released on 2003. Does the New Testament Imitate Homer? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book traces the influence of passages from the Iliad on subsequent ancient literature, showing how the story generated a vibrant mimetic literary tradition long before Luke composed the Acts. Educated readers would have recognized Luke's transformation of these tales and seen that the Christian God and heroes were superior to Homeric gods and heroes, MacDonald contends. With this radical reappraisal of the Acts of the Apostles, MacDonald sheds new light not only on a single book of the New Testament but also on the composition of early Christian narrative in general.
The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark
The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark write by Dennis Ronald MacDonald. This book was released on 2000-01-01. The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this groundbreaking book, Dennis R. MacDonald offers an entirely new view of the New Testament gospel of Mark. The author of the earliest gospel was not writing history, nor was he merely recording tradition, MacDonald argues. Close reading and careful analysis show that Mark borrowed extensively from the Odyssey and the Iliad and that he wanted his readers to recognise the Homeric antecedents in Mark's story of Jesus. Mark was composing a prose anti-epic, MacDonald says, presenting Jesus as a suffering hero modeled after but far superior to traditional Greek heroes. Much like Odysseus, Mark's Jesus sails the seas with uncomprehending companions, encounters preternatural opponents, and suffers many things before confronting rivals who have made his house a den of thieves. In his death and burial, Jesus emulates Hector, although unlike Hector Jesus leaves his tomb empty. Mark's minor characters, too, recall Homeric predecessors: Bartimaeus emulates Tiresias; Joseph of Arimathea, Priam; and the women at the tomb, Helen, Hecuba, and Andromache. And, entire episodes in Mark mirror Homeric episodes, including stilling the sea, walking on water, feeding the multitudes, the Triumphal E
Luke and Vergil
Luke and Vergil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Luke and Vergil write by Dennis R. MacDonald. This book was released on 2014-11-05. Luke and Vergil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These two volumes of The New Testament and Greek Literature are the magnum opus of biblical scholar Dennis R. MacDonald, outlining the profound connections between the New Testament and classical Greek poetry. MacDonald argues that the Gospel writers borrowed from established literary sources to create stories about Jesus that readers of the day would find convincing. In Luke and Vergil MacDonald proposes that the author of Luke-Acts followed Mark’s lead in imitating Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, but greatly expanded his project, especially in the Acts, but adding imitations not only of the epics but also of Euripides’ Bacchae and Plato’s Socratic dialogues. The potential imitations include spectacular miracles, official resistance, epiphanies, prison breaks, and more. The book applies mimesis criticism and uses side-by-side comparisons to show how early Christian authors portrayed the origins of Christianity as more compelling than the Augustan Golden Age.
Two Shipwrecked Gospels
Two Shipwrecked Gospels - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Two Shipwrecked Gospels write by Dennis R. MacDonald. This book was released on 2012-06-29. Two Shipwrecked Gospels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With characteristic boldness and careful reassessment of the evidence, MacDonald offers an alternative reconstruction of Q and an alternative solution to the Synoptic Problem: the Q+/Papias Hypothesis. To do so, he reconstructs and interprets two lost books about Jesus: the earliest Gospel, which was used as a source by the authors of Mark, Matthew, and Luke; and the earliest commentary on the Gospels, by Papias of Hierapolis, who apparently knew Mark, Matthew, and the lost Gospel, which he considered to be an alternative Greek translation of a Semitic Matthew. MacDonald also explores how these two texts, well known into the fourth century, shipwrecked with the canonization of the New Testament and the embarrassment at outmoded eschatologies in both the lost Gospel and Papias’s Exposition.
