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Mar 27, 2020 · John Heath’s The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths comes as the latest in a growing list of studies comparing the Bible and Homeric epic. This book differs from recent predecessors in its focus on theology rather than literary history, literary criticism, or historicist accounts of canon-formation.
- John Heath
Apr 22, 2020 · Abstract. HOMER AND THE BIBLE - (J.) Heath The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths. Why We Would Be Better off with Homer's Gods. Pp. xii + 417. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. Cased, £115, US$140. ISBN: 978-0-367-07720-4. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 April 2020.
Jun 9, 2009 · According to MacDonald, Luke has reported the lighted condition merely because he is imitating Homer (13–14). Two fundamental methodological flaws, repeated throughout MacDonald’s book, emerge from this comparison. First, characters in any story, fictional or nonfictional, do what they do in some condition of lighting.
Immaterial of how the controversy over the origin of these seaborne invaders comes to be settled, the extraordinary parallels between Homer’s epics and the biblical descriptions of the Philistines clearly demonstrate a degree of contact between the Aegean world and the Biblical authors.
May 17, 2019 · The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths explores and compares the most influential sets of divine myths in Western culture: the Homeric.
- John Robert Heath
- 2019
Sep 23, 2003 · “As a result, like the Bible and some other ancient corpora, Homer’s became a manifold text, which carried within itself both the original message and its re-interpretation in the vein of later values” (90). That is why Homer’s text became ‘foundational,’ the ‘Bible of the Greeks.’
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By Carol G. Thomas. Did a man named Homer really live? And are the poems attributed to him, the Iliad and the Odyssey, rooted in actual history? Generations of scholars have wrestled with these problems and provided widely different solutions. But does it really matter?
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