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Jesus the Epic Hero
- The Theology of Empress Eudocia’s Homeric Gospel
Engelsk Hardback
Jesus the Epic Hero
- The Theology of Empress Eudocia’s Homeric Gospel
Engelsk Hardback

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The ancient cento-genre was prone to be used on all kinds of subjects. New texts were created out of the classical epics. Empress Eudocia followed this practice and composed the story of Jesus in lines lifted almost verbatim from Homer’s epics. Jesus and his relevance to her audience is thus presented within the confines of style and vocabulary offered by the Iliad and Odyssey. The lines picked to convey her theology are often clustered around key Homeric motifs or type scenes, such as warfare, homecoming, feast, reconciliation, hospitality. Jesus waging war against all evil and Hades in particular runs throughout this Homeric and simultaneously biblical epic. The story starts in the Old Testament which is conceived as a divine counsel on Mt. Olympus where a plan to save sinful humanity is presented. The narrative then follows the biographic lines of the canonical gospels, with John’s Gospel holding pride of place in the way she renders and interprets the Jesus-story. The story told suspends both the geography and time of Jesus. Eudocia preaches the story she tells. She emerges in this poem as one of the most, if not the most prolific female theologian and preacher in the first Christian centuries.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
206
ISBN-13:
9781666908626
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1666908622
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Udg. Dato:
29 aug 2022
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
159mm
Forlag:
Lexington Books
Oplagsdato:
29 aug 2022
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