The Bible, Homer, the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths Why We Would Be Better Off With Homer`s Gods

By:

Heath, John

Contributor(s):

Heath, John

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies ; 201900ENGGPS8Publication details: London Routledge 2019Description: 417pISBN:

9780367077204

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

B97.3 H351

Partial contents:

1. Brothers and Sisters from a Defertny.......................29 Texts with a History.......................31 Assembling Rememberences.............33 2. Yahweh and the other Olympians .................61 Homer`s Gods...........63 Biblical Polytheism I : Yahweh`s Devine Competition ...80 Biblical Polytheism II : Yahweh`s Little Helpers ..........96 Biblical Anthropomorphism : Yahweh`s Da Man ......113 2. Diverging Deities: Where homer Got it Right ...........137 Section I : Theological (Dis)Honesty ..........139 Cleaning up Yahweh............141 Homer`s Perfectly Fallible Gods ........157 Creating Meaning ............177 Homeric Creation ..........179 The failure of Genesis, The Genesis of Failure ..............195 The demands of Finitude .........215 Cheating death, squandering life .........217 We all have it coming ...............232 Finding justice .........257 Waiting for God, Oh. The myth of Illiadic Justice ..................283 5. Heavenly Sex ...........311 Divine eros, Biblical Celibracy, And God`s little Punching bag........313

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	DVK Library Stack -> First Floor -> B	B97.3 H351 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		22137248

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Brothers and Sisters from a Defertny.......................29
Texts with a History.......................31
Assembling Rememberences.............33
2. Yahweh and the other Olympians .................61
Homer`s Gods...........63
Biblical Polytheism I : Yahweh`s Devine Competition ...80
Biblical Polytheism II : Yahweh`s Little Helpers ..........96
Biblical Anthropomorphism : Yahweh`s Da Man ......113
2. Diverging Deities: Where homer Got it Right ...........137
Section I : Theological (Dis)Honesty ..........139
Cleaning up Yahweh............141
Homer`s Perfectly Fallible Gods ........157
Creating Meaning ............177
Homeric Creation ..........179
The failure of Genesis, The Genesis of Failure ..............195
The demands of Finitude .........215
Cheating death, squandering life .........217
We all have it coming ...............232
Finding justice .........257
Waiting for God, Oh. The myth of Illiadic Justice ..................283
5. Heavenly Sex ...........311
Divine eros, Biblical Celibracy, And God`s little Punching bag........313

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.