The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark

The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 0300080123
ISBN-13 : 9780300080124
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark by : Dennis Ronald MacDonald

In this groundbreaking book, Dennis R. MacDonald offers an entirely new view of the New Testament gospel of Mark. The author of the earliest gospel was not writing history, nor was he merely recording tradition, MacDonald argues. Close reading and careful analysis show that Mark borrowed extensively from the Odyssey and the Iliad and that he wanted his readers to recognise the Homeric antecedents in Mark's story of Jesus. Mark was composing a prose anti-epic, MacDonald says, presenting Jesus as a suffering hero modeled after but far superior to traditional Greek heroes. Much like Odysseus, Mark's Jesus sails the seas with uncomprehending companions, encounters preternatural opponents, and suffers many things before confronting rivals who have made his house a den of thieves. In his death and burial, Jesus emulates Hector, although unlike Hector Jesus leaves his tomb empty. Mark's minor characters, too, recall Homeric predecessors: Bartimaeus emulates Tiresias; Joseph of Arimathea, Priam; and the women at the tomb, Helen, Hecuba, and Andromache. And, entire episodes in Mark mirror Homeric episodes, including stilling the sea, walking on water, feeding the multitudes, the Triumphal E

Greek Thought in the New Testament

Greek Thought in the New Testament
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:$B293751
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Greek Thought in the New Testament by : George Holley Gilbert

From Stoicism to Platonism

From Stoicism to Platonism
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 411
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ISBN-10 : 9781107166196
ISBN-13 : 1107166195
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis From Stoicism to Platonism by : Troels Engberg-Pedersen

This book explores the process during 100 BCE-100 CE by which dualistic Platonism became the reigning school in philosophy.

When God Spoke Greek

When God Spoke Greek
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9780199781720
ISBN-13 : 0199781729
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis When God Spoke Greek by : Timothy Michael Law

Most readers do not know about the Bible used almost universally by early Christians, or about how that Bible was birthed, how it grew to prominence, and how it differs from the one used as the basis for most modern translations. Although it was one of the most important events in the history of our civilization, the translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek in the third century BCE is an event almost unknown outside of academia. Timothy Michael Law offers the first book to make this topic accessible to a wider audience. Retrospectively, we can hardly imagine the history of Christian thought, and the history of Christianity itself, without the Old Testament. When the Emperor Constantine adopted the Christian faith, his fusion of the Church and the State ensured that the Christian worldview (which by this time had absorbed Jewish ideals that had come to them through the Greek translation) would leave an imprint on subsequent history. This book narrates in a fresh and exciting way the story of the Septuagint, the Greek Scriptures of the ancient Jewish Diaspora that became the first Christian Old Testament.

Did Jesus Speak Greek?

Did Jesus Speak Greek?
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9781498204347
ISBN-13 : 1498204341
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Did Jesus Speak Greek? by : G. Scott Gleaves

Did Jesus speak Greek? An affirmative answer to the question will no doubt challenge traditional presuppositions. The question relates directly to the historical preservation of Jesus's words and theology. Traditionally, the authenticity of Jesus's teaching has been linked to the recovery of the original Aramaic that presumably underlies the Gospels. The Aramaic Hypothesis infers that the Gospels represent theological expansions, religious propaganda, or blatant distortions of Jesus's teachings. Consequently, uncovering the original Aramaic of Jesus's teachings will separate the historical Jesus from the mythical personality. G. Scott Gleaves, in Did Jesus Speak Greek?, contends that the Aramaic Hypothesis is inadequate as an exclusive criterion of historical Jesus studies and does not aptly take into consideration the multilingual culture of first-century Palestine. Evidence from archaeological, literary, and biblical data demonstrates Greek linguistic dominance in Roman Palestine during the first century CE. Such preponderance of evidence leads not only to the conclusion that Jesus and his disciples spoke Greek but also to the recognition that the Greek New Testament generally and the Gospel of Matthew in particular were original compositions and not translations of underlying Aramaic sources.

Prepositions and Theology in the Greek New Testament

Prepositions and Theology in the Greek New Testament
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Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 9780310531050
ISBN-13 : 0310531055
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Prepositions and Theology in the Greek New Testament by : Murray J. Harris

Prepositions are important in the exegesis of the Greek New Testament, but they are at the same time very slippery words because they can have so many nuances. While Prepositions and Theology in the Greek New Testament rejects the idea of a “theology of the prepositions,” it is a study of the numerous places in the Greek New Testament where prepositions contribute to the theological meaning of the text. Offered in the hope that it might encourage close study of the Greek text of the New Testament, its many features include the following: Coverage of all 17 “proper” and 42 “improper” prepositions Explores both literary and broader theological contexts Greek font—not transliteration—used throughout Comprehensive indexes to hundreds of verses, subjects, and Greek words Discussion of key repeated phrases that use a particular preposition

John Paul II to Aristotle and Back Again

John Paul II to Aristotle and Back Again
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 97
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ISBN-10 : 9781498203548
ISBN-13 : 149820354X
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis John Paul II to Aristotle and Back Again by : Andrew Dean Swafford

Have you ever struggled to explain the basics of a Christian worldview, particularly as it concerns God's existence and his relation to the natural order, morality, even sexual ethics? Utilizing the thought of the late Pope John Paul II and the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, Dr. Andrew Swafford has done just this. This book explains the philosophical underpinnings of a Christian worldview--in a way that is accessible to the general reader--discussing God's existence, faith and reason, a tour through virtue-ethics leading to authentic happiness (and discussing the seven deadly sins along the way), as well as John Paul II's teaching on the "language" of the body and the meaning of the human vocation to make a gift of one's self. The reader will come away with a deep understanding of the philosophical foundations for the Christian life.

Moral Exhortation

Moral Exhortation
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Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 0664250165
ISBN-13 : 9780664250164
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Moral Exhortation by :

Translated selections of writings on ethics by Arius Didymus, Cicero, Crates, Demetrius of Phalerum, Dio Chrysostom, Diogenes, Diogenes Laertius, Epictetus, Epicurus, Hierocles, Horace, Isocrates, Julian, Lucian of Samosata, Maximus of Tyre, Melissa, Musonius Rufus, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Seneca, Sextus Empiricus, and Theano, and from the Gnomologium Vaticanum, Oxyrhynchus Papyrus, and Pythagorean Sentences.

Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament

Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 201
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ISBN-10 : 9781597520409
ISBN-13 : 1597520403
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament by : Gleason L. Archer

"New Testament writers drew heavily from Old Testament Scriptures as the demonstrated the fulfillment of the plan and promises of God in Christ. The New Testament is filled with such quotations, but their use raises several problems. How do we account for the occasions when the New Testament writers seem to take liberties with the Hebrew text, or when the wording of other New Testament citations of the Old Testament is closer to the Greek Septuagint (LXX) than to the original Hebrew? [The authors] have undertaken a systematic study of the use of Old Testament quotations in the New Testament. In three parallel columns for ready reference and study they have affixed the Masoretic Hebrew, Septuagint, and Greek New Testament texts pertinent to each quotation. A fourth column-- the largest segment of the valulable language tool--provides a critical commentary of orthographic, linguistic, and textual notes on the 312 entries. In addition, the authors include the results of a statistical survey in which every quotation is assigned to one of six levels to determine its degree of difficulty regarding the faithfulness of the New Testament to the Old Testament quotation. Helpful introductory material, including complete cross-references to the tool in both Old and New Testament order, make the work invaluable to scholars and students alike" -- BOOK JACKET from Moody Press.

Beginning with New Testament Greek

Beginning with New Testament Greek
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Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages : 382
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ISBN-10 : 9781433650574
ISBN-13 : 1433650576
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Beginning with New Testament Greek by : Benjamin L Merkle

From their decades of combined teaching experience, Benjamin L. Merkle and Robert L. Plummer have produced an ideal resource for novice Greek students to not only learn the language but also kindle a passion for reading the Greek New Testament. Designed for those new to Greek, Beginning with New Testament Greek is a user-friendly textbook for elementary Greek courses at the college or seminary level.