Dennis R. Macdonald

Dionysian Gospel (eBook, ePUB)

The Fourth Gospel and Euripides

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

MacDonald observes that the Fourth Gospel sounds themes proper to the Greek god Dionysos (the Roman Bacchus), not least as he was depicted in Euripides's play The Bacchae. A divine figure, offspring of a divine father and human mother, takes on flesh to live among mortals, but is rejected by his own; miraculously provides wine; includes women as his close devotees; dies a violent death-and returns to life. The Johannine Evangelist not only imitated Euripides but expected his readers to recognize Jesus as greater than Dionysos.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fortress Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781506421667
• Artikelnr.: 49539684

Autorenporträt

By Dennis R. MacDonald