John Heath

The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths (eBook, ePUB)

Why We Would Be Better Off With Homer's Gods

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths explores and compares the most influential sets of divine myths in Western Culture: the Homeric pantheon and Yahweh, the God of the Old Testament.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429663741
• Artikelnr.: 56524011

Autorenporträt

John Heath is Professor of Classics at Santa Clara University, USA. His previous books include a study of the literary adaptations of classical myth (Actaeon, the Unmannerly Intruder, 1992), a popular defense of the study of classics (Who Killed Homer? co-authored with Victor Davis Hanson, 1998), an examination of the links between speech, animalization, and status in Greek literature and society (The Talking Greeks, 2005), and an exploration of the common themes underlying American bestselling books (Why We Read What We Read, co-authored with Lisa Adams, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part One Brothers (and Sisters) from a Different Mother
Section I Texts with a History
Chapter 2: Assembling Resemblances
Section II Yahweh and Other Olympians
Chapter 3: Homer's Gods
Chapter 4: Biblical Polytheism I: Yahweh's Divine Competition
Chapter 5: Biblical Polytheism II: Yahweh's Little Helpers
Chapter 6: Biblical Anthropomorphism: Yahweh's Da Man
Part Two Diverging Deities: Where Homer Got It Right
Section I Theological (Dis)Honesty
Chapter 7: Cleaning up Yahweh
Chapter 8: Homer's Perfectly Fallible Gods
Section II Creating Meaning
Chapter 9: Homeric Creation
Chapter 10: The Failure of Genesis, the Genesis of Failure
Section III The Demands of Finitude
Chapter 11: Cheating Death, Squandering Life
Chapter 12: We All Have it Coming
Section IV Finding Justice
Chapter 13: Waiting for God. Oh. The Myth of Iliadic Justice
Chapter 14: Living Without the Gods: The Myth of Theistic Justice
Section V Heavenly Sex
Chapter 15: Divine Eros, Biblical Celibacy, and God's Little Punching Bag
Chapter 16: Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix 1: Short summaries of the Iliad and Odyssey
Appendix 2: Who Are the Homeric Gods?
Appendix 3: Iliadic Justice: Making Sense of the Trojan War
Appendix 4: Divine Justice in the Odyssey?
Bibliography
Index