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Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation - Luke-Acts as Rival to the Aeneid (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,780
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Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation - Luke-Acts as Rival to the Aeneid (Hardcover): Dennis R MacDonald

Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation - Luke-Acts as Rival to the Aeneid (Hardcover)

Dennis R MacDonald

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Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation: Luke-Acts as Rival to the Aeneid argues that the author of Luke-Acts composed not a history but a foundation mythology to rival Vergil's Aeneid by adopting and ethically emulating the cultural capital of classical Greek poetry, especially Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Euripides's Bacchae. For example, Vergil and, more than a century later, Luke both imitated Homer's account of Zeus's lying dream to Agamemnon, Priam's escape from Achilles, and Odysseus's shipwreck and visit to the netherworld. Both Vergil and Luke, as well as many other intellectuals in the Roman Empire, engaged the great poetry of the Greeks to root new social or political realities in the soil of ancient Hellas, but they also rivaled Homer's gods and heroes to create new ones that were more moral, powerful, or compassionate. One might say that the genre of Luke-Acts is an oxymoron: a prose epic. If this assessment is correct, it holds enormous importance for understanding Christian origins, in part because one may no longer appeal to the Acts of the Apostles for reliable historical information. Luke was not a historian any more than Vergil was, and, as the Latin bard had done for the Augustine age, he wrote a fictional portrayal of the kingdom of God and its heroes, especially Jesus and Paul, who were more powerful, more ethical, and more compassionate than the gods and heroes of Homer and Euripides or those of Vergil's Aeneid.

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Imprint: Lexington Books-Fortress Academic
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 2018
Authors: Dennis R MacDonald
Dimensions: 230 x 158 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 978-1-978701-38-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian theology > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious life & practice > Religious instruction
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious life & practice > Religious instruction
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian theology > General
Books > Christianity > Christian theology
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LSN: 1-978701-38-1
Barcode: 9781978701380

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