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The Dionysian Gospel - The Fourth Gospel and Euripides (Hardcover)
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The Dionysian Gospel - The Fourth Gospel and Euripides (Hardcover)
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"Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in
them." Dennis R. MacDonald offers a provocative explanation of
those scandalous words of Christ from the Fourth Gospel-an
explanation that he argues would hardly have surprised some of the
Gospel's early readers. John sounds themes that would have
instantly been recognized as proper to the Greek god Dionysos (the
Roman Bacchus), not least as he was depicted in Euripides's play
The Bacchae. A divine figure, the offspring of a divine father and
human mother, takes on flesh to live among mortals, but is rejected
by his own. He miraculously provides wine and offers it as a sacred
gift to his devotees, women prominent among them, dies a violent
death-and returns to life. Yet John takes his drama in a
dramatically different direction: while Euripides's Dionysos exacts
vengeance on the Theban throne, the Johannine Christ offers life to
his followers. MacDonald employs mimesis criticism to argue that
the earliest Evangelist not only imitated Euripides but expected
his readers to recognize Jesus as greater than Dionysos.
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