Challenge of Homer
«A fascinating study...very stimulating treatment of Christian attitudes to education which reveals the cultural impact of the new religion on the wider ancient society.»
Expository Times, April 2010
Homer was the gateway to education, to the skills of reading and writing. These skills were necessary for the nascent Church. Knowledge of Homer's writings was a sign of Greekness, of at-home-ness in the society. Les mer
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The first Christians faced two hermeneutical challenges of fundamental importnce: that of interpreting the Old Testament and how to cope with the Greek legacy embedded in Homer. The latter is not explicitly raised in the New Testament. But since the art of interpreting any text, presupposes reading skills, conveyed through liberal studies, the Homeric challenge must have been of outmost importance.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- T.& T.Clark Ltd
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 336
- ISBN
- 9780567426642
- Utgivelsesår
- 2009
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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«A fascinating study...very stimulating treatment of Christian attitudes to education which reveals the cultural impact of the new religion on the wider ancient society.»
Expository Times, April 2010
«Reviewed in Revue des Livres (French).»
Revue des livres
«The voyage to which Sandness invites his readers is worthwhile and illuminating.»
Bijdragen, International Journal in Philosophy and Theology