TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heath, John
AU  - Heath,John
TI  - The Bible, Homer, the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths:  Why We Would Be Better Off With Homer`s Gods
SN  - 9780367077204
U1  - B97.3 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - God
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Criticism, Interpretation
KW  - Homer
N1  - 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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