Christianizing Homer: The Odyssey, Plato, and The Acts of Andrew - Hardcover

MacDonald, Dennis Ronald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195087224 ISBN 13: 9780195087222

Verlag: OUP USA, 1994

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Book by MacDonald Dennis R

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Gracefully and graciously crafted....Will be of equal interest to scholars of the classics, ancient history, and early Christianity....This stimulating work is also accessible to upper-division undergraduates and interested members of the general public. (Choice)

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This study focuses on the apocryphal Acts of Andrew (c. 200 AD), which purports to tell the story of the travels, miracles, and martyrdom of the apostle Andrew. Traditional scholarship has looked for the background of such writings in Jewish and Christian scriptures. MacDonald, however, breaks with that model and looks to classic literature for the sources of this story. Specifically, he argues that the Acts represent an attempt to transform Graeco-Roman myth into Christian narrative categories by telling the story of Andrew in terms of Homeric epic, in particular the Odyssey. MacDonald presents a point-by-point comparison of the two works, finding the resemblances so strong, numerous, and tendentious that they virtually compel the reader to consider the Acts a transformative "rewriting" of the epic. This discovery not only sheds valuable light on the uses of Homer in the early church but also significantly contributes to our understanding of the reception of Homer in the empire as a whole.

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• Verlag: OUP USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0195087224
• ISBN 13: 9780195087222
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368