By Dennis R. MacDonald
ISBN-10: 0742558916
ISBN-13: 9780742558915
Dennis MacDonald indicates how Gospel tales parallel many Greek and Roman epics-from strolling on water to vacationing the land of the dead-to compel first-century readers into life-changing judgements to persist with Jesus. MacDonald doesn't name into query the life of Jesus yet quite asks readers to envision the Gospels via a brand new, mythological lens.
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Immediately he approached the suitors, a man who resembled a god. 319–324) Vergil imitated Athena’s flight to Telemachus in Aen. 359–360). He called an assembly of neighbors to expel the suitors and prayed to Zeus that if they would not leave willingly, somehow they might be killed. Then all of them biting their lips, were amazed at Telemachus, because he spoke boldly. Then Antinous [one of the suitors] . . said to him, “Telemachus, surely the gods themselves are teaching you to be brave and to speak boldly!
304–305). So he had another idea: to get the giant drunk and to blind his eye with a pointed stick. ” * * * * * Then I spoke to him with kind words, * * * * * “Nobody is my name. 347, 353–355, 363, and 366–367) After drinking too much wine, Polyphemus fell into a drunken sleep, while Odysseus and his men jabbed the sharpened point of a beam into his only eye, blinding him. He let out a great shout to the Cyclopes who lived around him in the caves among the windy hills. When they heard his cry, they rushed from here and there, and standing around the cave, they asked him what was troubling him.
Dionysus was famous as the god of the grape who provided people with wine and wealth. He thus is one of several so-called donor gods. indb 26 3/31/15 11:50 AM CHAPTER THREE Feeding Thousands Mark twice presents Jesus multiplying small quantities of bread and dried fish to feed thousands. Here is the first: They left privately in the boat to a desolate place. 33 Many people saw them leaving, recognized them, by foot crowded there from all the cities, and got there before them. 34 And when he went ashore, he saw a large crowd and took pity on them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.
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