Bruce Louden

Greek Myth and the Bible

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Since the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Gilgamesh epic, we have known that the Bible imports narratives from outside of Israelite culture, refiguring them for its own audience. Only more recently, however, has come the realization that Greek culture is also a prominent source of biblical narratives. Greek Myth and the Bible argues that classical mythological literature and the biblical texts were composed in a dialogic relationship. Louden examines a variety of Greek myths from a range of sources, analyzing parallels between biblical episodes and Hesiod, Euripides, Argonautic myth, selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Homeric ep… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-429-82804-1
EAN: 9780429828041
Produktnummer: 29434321
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 250 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 787 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Bruce Louden is Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistics, the Humanities Program, and Philosophy, at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA.