The Bible, Homer, the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths Why We Would Be Better Off With Homer`s Gods
Material type: TextSeries: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies ; 201900ENGGPS8Publication details: London Routledge 2019Description: 417pISBN:- 9780367077204
- B97.3 H351
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B97.3 F948 Great Code | B97.3 F993 Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean De Meun | B97.3 G185 Cracking Da Vinci`s Code | B97.3 H351 The Bible, Homer, the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths | B97.3 H352 Everyday Life in Old Testament | B97.3 H844 The Celtic Latin Tradition of Biblical Style | B97.3 J312 Bible and Literature |
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
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