Homer Or Moses?
Author: Arthur J. Droge
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9783161453540
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Homer Or Moses?
Homer's Odyssey and the Near East
Author: Bruce Louden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-01-06
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1139494902
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Odyssey's larger plot is composed of a number of distinct genres of myth, all of which are extant in various Near Eastern cultures (Mesopotamian, West Semitic, and Egyptian). Unexpectedly, the Near Eastern culture with which the Odyssey has the most parallels is the Old Testament. Consideration of how much of the Odyssey focuses on non-heroic episodes - hosts receiving guests, a king disguised as a beggar, recognition scenes between long-separated family members - reaffirms the Odyssey's parallels with the Bible. In particular the book argues that the Odyssey is in a dialogic relationship with Genesis, which features the same three types of myth that comprise the majority of the Odyssey: theoxeny, romance (Joseph in Egypt), and Argonautic myth (Jacob winning Rachel from Laban). The Odyssey also offers intriguing parallels to the Book of Jonah, and Odysseus' treatment by the suitors offers close parallels to the Gospels' depiction of Christ in Jerusalem.
Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes
Author: Jessica Wolfe
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2015-09-15
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 1442622687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From antiquity through the Renaissance, Homer’s epic poems – the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the various mock-epics incorrectly ascribed to him – served as a lens through which readers, translators, and writers interpreted contemporary conflicts. They looked to Homer for wisdom about the danger and the value of strife, embracing his works as a mythographic shorthand with which to describe and interpret the era’s intellectual, political, and theological struggles. Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes elegantly exposes the ways in which writers and thinkers as varied as Erasmus, Rabelais, Spenser, Milton, and Hobbes presented Homer as a great champion of conflict or its most eloquent critic. Jessica Wolfe weaves together an exceptional range of sources, including manuscript commentaries, early modern marginalia, philosophical and political treatises, and the visual arts. Wolfe’s transnational and multilingual study is a landmark work in the study of classical reception that has a great deal to offer to anyone examining the literary, political, and intellectual life of early modern Europe.
Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters
Author: Maren Niehoff
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-03-06
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9004221344
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The present collection of articles brings together scholars from different fields and offers pioneering essays on the Alexandrian scholia, Philo, Platonic thinkers and the rabbis, which cross traditional boundaries and interpret Biblical and Homeric readers in light of each other.
Moses as a Character in the Fourth Gospel
Author: Stanley Harstine
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2002-10-01
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0567047598
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Did first century Mediterranean readers of the Fourth Gospel have comparable literary examples to inform their comprehension of Moses as a character? In addressing this question, Harstine's study falls into two parts. The first is an analysis of the character Moses as utilized in the text of the Fourth Gospel. The second is an examination of other Hellenistic narrative texts, in which the character of Homer is also considered, as another important legendary figure with whom the readers of the Fourth Gospel would have been familiar.
Inventing Homer
Author: Barbara Graziosi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-04-25
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521809665
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the ancient reception of the Homeric poems and its relation to modern approaches.
Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-03-06
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9004226117
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thus far intepretations of Homer and the Bible have largely been studied in isolation even though both texts became foundational for Western civilisation and were often commented upon in the same cultural context. The present collection of articles redresses this imbalance by bringing together scholars from different fields and offering prioneering essays, which cross traditional boundaries and interpret Biblical and Homeric interpreters in light of each other. The picture which emerges from these studies in highly complex: Greek, Jewish and Christian readers were concerned with similar literary and religious questions, often defining their own position in dialogue with others. Special attention is given to three central corpora: the Alexandrian scholia, Philo, Platonic writers of the Imperial Age, rabbinic exegesis.
The World of Odysseus
Author: M. I. Finley
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2002-09-30
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1590170172
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long celebrated as a pathbreaking achievement in the social history of the ancient world, M.I. Finley's brilliant study remains, as classicist Bernard Knox notes in his introduction to this new edition, "as indispensable to the professional as it is accessible to the general reader"--a fundamental companion for students of Homer and Homeric Greece.
Substance of the Two Nights' Discussion, in the Social Institution, 69, Great Queen Street, London, on Friday and Saturday, 14th & 15th December, Between the Rev. Joseph Baylee, and Frederick Hollick on the Genuineness, Authenticity, and Inspiration of the Bible
