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The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark

By: Dennis Ronald MacDonald,Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins Dennis R MacDonald

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The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark

By: Dennis Ronald MacDonald,Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins Dennis R 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

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0300080123

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The Dionysian Gospel

The Fourth Gospel and Euripides

By: Dennis R. MacDonald

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The Dionysian Gospel

The Fourth Gospel and Euripides

By: Dennis R. MacDonald

“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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1506421660

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The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark

By: Dennis Ronald MacDonald,Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins Dennis R MacDonald

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Luke and Vergil

Imitations of Classical Greek Literature

By: Dennis R. MacDonald

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Luke and Vergil

Imitations of Classical Greek Literature

By: Dennis R. MacDonald

These two volumes of The New Testament and Greek Literature are the magnum opus of biblical scholar Dennis R. MacDonald, outlining the profound connections between the New Testament and classical Greek poetry. MacDonald argues that the Gospel writers borrowed from established literary sources to create stories about Jesus that readers of the day would find convincing. In Luke and Vergil MacDonald proposes that the author of Luke-Acts followed Mark’s lead in imitating Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, but greatly expanded his project, especially in the Acts, but adding imitations not only of the epics but also of Euripides’ Bacchae and Plato’s Socratic dialogues. The potential imitations include spectacular miracles, official resistance, epiphanies, prison breaks, and more. The book applies mimesis criticism and uses side-by-side comparisons to show how early Christian authors portrayed the origins of Christianity as more compelling than the Augustan Golden Age.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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144223055X

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The Gospels and Homer

Imitations of Greek Epic in Mark and Luke-Acts

By: Dennis R. MacDonald

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The Gospels and Homer

Imitations of Greek Epic in Mark and Luke-Acts

By: Dennis R. MacDonald

These two volumes of The New Testament and Greek Literature are the magnum opus of biblical scholar Dennis R. MacDonald, outlining the profound connections between the New Testament and classical Greek poetry. MacDonald argues that the Gospel writers borrowed from established literary sources to create stories about Jesus that readers of the day would find convincing. In The Gospels and Homer MacDonald leads readers through Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, highlighting models that the authors of the Gospel of Mark and Luke-Acts may have imitated for their portrayals of Jesus and his earliest followers such as Paul. The book applies mimesis criticism to show the popularity of the targets being imitated, the distinctiveness in the Gospels, and evidence that ancient readers recognized these similarities. Using side-by-side comparisons, the book provides English translations of Byzantine poetry that shows how Christian writers used lines from Homer to retell the life of Jesus. The potential imitations include adventures and shipwrecks, savages living in cages, meals for thousands, transfigurations, visits from the dead, blind seers, and more. MacDonald makes a compelling case that the Gospel writers successfully imitated the epics to provide their readers with heroes and an authoritative foundation for Christianity.

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1442230533

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Christianizing Homer

The Odyssey, Plato, and the Acts of Andrew

By: Dennis R. MacDonald

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Christianizing Homer

The Odyssey, Plato, and the Acts of Andrew

By: Dennis R. MacDonald

This study focuses on the apocryphal "Acts of Andrew" (200 AD), which purport to tell the story of the travels, miracles and martyrdom of the apostle Andrew. Breaking with tradition that concludes the Acts came from scripture, the author investigates classical literature to find the sources.

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Oxford University Press

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0195087224

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Does the New Testament Imitate Homer?

Four Cases from the Acts of the Apostles

By: Dennis R. MacDonald

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Does the New Testament Imitate Homer?

Four Cases from the Acts of the Apostles

By: Dennis R. MacDonald

div In this provocative challenge to prevailing views of New Testament sources, Dennis R. MacDonald argues that the origins of passages in the book of Acts are to be found not in early Christian legends but in the epics of Homer. MacDonald focuses on four passages in the book of Acts, examines their potential parallels in the Iliad, and concludes that the author of Acts composed them using famous scenes in Homer’s work as a model. Tracing the influence of passages from the Iliad on subsequent ancient literature, MacDonald shows how the story generated a vibrant, mimetic literary tradition long before Luke composed the Acts. Luke could have expected educated readers to recognize his transformation of these tales and to see that the Christian God and heroes were superior to Homeric gods and heroes. Building upon and extending the analytic methods of his earlier book, The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark, MacDonald opens an original and promising appreciation not only of Acts but also of the composition of early Christian narrative in general. /DIV

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Yale University Press

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0300129890

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The Dionysian Gospel

The Fourth Gospel and Euripides

By: Dennis R. MacDonald

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The Fourth Gospel and Euripides

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The Legend and the Apostle

The Battle for Paul in Story and Canon

By: Dennis Ronald MacDonald

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The Legend and the Apostle

The Battle for Paul in Story and Canon

By: Dennis Ronald MacDonald

The apostle Paul--antifeminist conformist, or social radical? Combining New Testament studies with folkloristic methods to search for the true identity of Paul, the author sheds new light on the apocryphal Acts of Paul and the Pastoral Epistles of the canonical New Testament. With this book, the legends surrounding the apostle have been rescued from near oblivion and properly placed in the Pauline tradition. Formulated in the days of early Christianity and handed down through the centuries, they cast new light on Paul's views about the ordination of women, the forms of Christian community, and the meaning of the gospel for politics, society, and sexuality.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664244645

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Two Shipwrecked Gospels

The Logoi of Jesus and Papias's Exposition of Logia about the Lord

By: Dennis R. MacDonald

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Two Shipwrecked Gospels

The Logoi of Jesus and Papias's Exposition of Logia about the Lord

By: Dennis R. MacDonald

With characteristic boldness and careful reassessment of the evidence, MacDonald offers an alternative reconstruction of Q and an alternative solution to the Synoptic Problem: the Q+/Papias Hypothesis. To do so, he reconstructs and interprets two lost books about Jesus: the earliest Gospel, which was used as a source by the authors of Mark, Matthew, and Luke; and the earliest commentary on the Gospels, by Papias of Hierapolis, who apparently knew Mark, Matthew, and the lost Gospel, which he considered to be an alternative Greek translation of a Semitic Matthew. MacDonald also explores how these two texts, well known into the fourth century, shipwrecked with the canonization of the New Testament and the embarrassment at outmoded eschatologies in both the lost Gospel and Papias’s Exposition.

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Society of Biblical Lit

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158983691X

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Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation

Luke–Acts as Rival to the Aeneid

By: Dennis R. MacDonald

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Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation

Luke–Acts as Rival to the Aeneid

By: Dennis R. MacDonald

Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation: Luke–Acts as Rival to the Aeneid argues that the author of Luke–Acts composed not a history but a foundation mythology to rival Vergil’s Aeneid by adopting and ethically emulating the cultural capital of classical Greek poetry, especially Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and Euripides's Bacchae. For example, Vergil and, more than a century later, Luke both imitated Homer’s account of Zeus’s lying dream to Agamemnon, Priam’s escape from Achilles, and Odysseus’s shipwreck and visit to the netherworld. Both Vergil and Luke, as well as many other intellectuals in the Roman Empire, engaged the great poetry of the Greeks to root new social or political realities in the soil of ancient Hellas, but they also rivaled Homer’s gods and heroes to create new ones that were more moral, powerful, or compassionate. One might say that the genre of Luke–Acts is an oxymoron: a prose epic. If this assessment is correct, it holds enormous importance for understanding Christian origins, in part because one may no longer appeal to the Acts of the Apostles for reliable historical information. Luke was not a historian any more than Vergil was, and, as the Latin bard had done for the Augustine age, he wrote a fictional portrayal of the kingdom of God and its heroes, especially Jesus and Paul, who were more powerful, more ethical, and more compassionate than the gods and heroes of Homer and Euripides or those of Vergil’s Aeneid.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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197870139X

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From the Earliest Gospel (Q+) to the Gospel of Mark

Solving the Synoptic Problem with Mimesis Criticism

By: Dennis R. MacDonald

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From the Earliest Gospel (Q+) to the Gospel of Mark

Solving the Synoptic Problem with Mimesis Criticism

By: Dennis R. MacDonald

From the Earliest Gospel (Q+) to the Gospel of Mark focuses on the remarkable overlaps between Jesus’s teachings in the lost Gospel Q and Mark. Dennis R. MacDonald argues Synoptic intertextuality is best explained not as the redaction of sources but more flexibly as the imitation of literary models. Part One applies the criteria of mimesis criticism in a running commentary on Q+ to demonstrate that it polemically imitated Deuteronomy. Part Two argues that Mark in turn tendentiously imitated Logoi. The Conclusion proposes that Matthew and Luke in turn brilliantly and freely imitated both Logoi and Mark and by doing so created scores of duplicate sayings and episodes (doublets).

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1978703406

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Mythologizing Jesus

From Jewish Teacher to Epic Hero

By: Dennis R. MacDonald

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Mythologizing Jesus

From Jewish Teacher to Epic Hero

By: Dennis R. MacDonald

Our culture is well-populated with superheroes: Superman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, and more. Superheroes are not a modern invention; in fact, they are prehistoric. The gods and goddesses of the Greeks, for example, walked on water, flew, visited the land of the dead, and lived forever. Ancient Christians told similar stories about Jesus, their primary superhero—he possessed incredible powers of healing, walked on water, rose from the dead, and more. Dennis R. MacDonald shows how the stories told in the Gospels parallel many in Greek and Roman epics with the aim of compelling their readers into life-changing decisions to follow Jesus. MacDonald doesn’t call into question the existence of Jesus but rather asks readers to examine the biblical stories about him through a new, mythological lens.

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1442233508

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Creating Jesus

The Earliest Record of Yeshua of Nazareth

By: Dennis Kennedy

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Creating Jesus

The Earliest Record of Yeshua of Nazareth

By: Dennis Kennedy

Creating Jesus is a book for general readers on the Gospel of Mark as the earliest surviving witness of the life of Yeshua of Nazareth. Dennis Kennedy applies his expertise in literary and performance studies to examining Mark as a literary and historical document and describes in straightforward style how it differs from the other Gospels, what it meant in its time, and how it has been used in history. He investigates the oral Jesus tradition before Mark, the radical act of writing about a crucified preacher from the hinterland, the expansion of the Messiah cult in the Roman Empire, and the character of the faith that the earliest Gospel proposes. Interspersed with incidents from Kennedy’s own education, Creating Jesus seeks to reveal why Mark was written, the great influence it has had, and how it might question the nature of Christianity in the present.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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Handbook of Laboratory Animal Bacteriology

By: Axel Kornerup Hansen,Dennis Sandris Nielsen

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Handbook of Laboratory Animal Bacteriology

By: Axel Kornerup Hansen,Dennis Sandris Nielsen

The Handbook of Laboratory Animal Bacteriology, Second Edition provides comprehensive information on all bacterial phylae found in laboratory rodents and rabbits to assist managers, veterinary pathologists and laboratory animal veterinarians in the management of these organisms. The book starts by examining the general aspects of bacteriology and h

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1482215454

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9781482215458

Consumer Credit Law and Practice - A Guide

By: Dennis Rosenthal

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Consumer Credit Law and Practice - A Guide

By: Dennis Rosenthal

“A new edition of Dennis Rosenthal's Consumer Credit Law and Practice - A Guide is always an event to be welcomed by the busy practitioner... In all this welter of regulation, there is a great need for a work which reduces the mass of case law and regulation covered in encyclopaedic works into a clear, concise and readable form which steers a way through the labyrinth. This is just such a book... It is to be warmly welcomed.” From the Foreword by Roy GoodeThe most useful and comprehensive single volume work on the subject of consumer credit. Consumer Credit Law and Practice - A Guide, Fifth Edition is an easily accessible guide covering all aspects of consumer credit, consumer hire and ancillary credit businesses. Written in a clear and penetrating style, the new fifth edition has been extensively updated and rewritten to take account of all relevant case law, legislative changes and developments, including: - coverage of EU Directives relating to alternative dispute resolution, supervision of credit institutions and consumer credit agreements for residential immovable property - the transfer of licensing from the OFT under CCA 1974 to authorisation and permission by the FCA under FSMA - the substitution of substantial parts of CCA 1974 and regulations under that Act, by FSMA, regulations under FSMA including RAO, and the FCA Handbook, in particular the Consumer Credit sourcebook (CONC) and the Mortgages and Home Finance Conduct of Business sourcebook (MCOB) - new chapters on FCA requirements and procedures relating to authorisation and permission, treating customers fairly, supervision and reporting, and alternative dispute resolution - developments in related areas such as data protection, fraud prevention and anti-money laundering Consumer Credit Law and Practice - A Guide, Fifth Edition is essential reading for: banking and commercial law practitioners; in-house lawyers; companies operating in consumer credit related industries, including banks and building societies, credit card companies, finance and leasing companies; compliance personnel; and consumer advisers.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1784518352

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9781784518356

Manual of Nutritional Therapeutics

By: David H. Alpers,Beth E. Taylor,Dennis M. Bier,Samuel Klein

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Manual of Nutritional Therapeutics

By: David H. Alpers,Beth E. Taylor,Dennis M. Bier,Samuel Klein

Meant for quick retrieval of vital information regarding the management of nutritional issues in patients with gastroenterological problems--either primary or as the consequence of other medical disorders, such as diabetes, hyperlipidemia and obesity. The book addresses normal physiology and pathophysiology, and offers chapters on diseases that can lead to specific nutritional problems. The clinical focus is on therapeutic nutrition and dietary management.

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1496310004

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