Books written by Dennis R. MacDonald
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Christianizing Homer: The Odyssey, Plato, and the Acts of Andrew
Odyssey 2.407–8 and 416–19 AAMt 5–7 [W]hen they had come down (kov- Andrew and his disciples went to mouðov) to the ship and to the sea, the sea (bitu thv 64%oooov), and when (êtu. ... Then,) his disciples fell asleep eyelids.
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Two Shipwrecked Gospels: The Logoi of Jesus and Papias’s Exposition of Logia about the Lord
He was speaking to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, the sower went out to sow, and during his sowing some seeds fell along the road, and when the birds came they devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky land, ...
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The Gospels and Homer: Imitations of Greek Epic in Mark and Luke-Acts
Carried off by sleep, he fell from the third story and was lifted up dead.10 Paul went down, lay upon him, embraced him, and said, “Don't raise a ruckus! His soul is in him.” 11He went back upstairs, broke bread, and once he had eaten ...
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Christianizing Homer: The Odyssey, Plato, and the Acts of Andrew
Whenever men came to sleep with her, she would place the gospel which she had with her on her breast, and all the men would fail to approach her. A certain rogue came to abuse her, and when she resisted, he tore off her clothes, ...
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Mythologizing Jesus: From Jewish Teacher to Epic Hero
Old friend of Odysseus, one of Athena's disguises to Telemachus Mentor. Old friend of Odysseus, one of Athena's disguises to Telemachus Mercury. Roman near equivalent to Hermes Misenus. Aeneas's colleague whose soul met him in the ...
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The Dionysian Gospel: The Fourth Gospel and Euripides
Scott, James M. Bacchius Iudaeus: A Denarius Commemorating Pompey's Victory over Judea. NTOA 104. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015. Seaford, Richard. Dionysos. Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World. London: Rutledge, 2006.
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The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark
In this groundbreaking book, Dennis R. MacDonald offers an entirely new view of the New Testament gospel of Mark. The author of the earliest gospel was not writing history, nor was he merely recording tradition, MacDonald argues.
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Does the New Testament Imitate Homer?: Four Cases from the Acts of the Apostles
In The Beginnings of Christianity. Part 1: The Acts of the Apostles. 5 vols. Ed. F. J. Foakes Jackson, and Kirsopp Lake. 5.22–30. London: Macmillan, 1920–33; reprint, Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1965. Lamberton, Robert. Homer the ...
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Two Shipwrecked Gospels: The Logoi of Jesus and Papias’s Exposition of Logia about the Lord
MacDonald also explores how these two texts, well known into the fourth century, shipwrecked with the canonization of the New Testament and the embarrassment at outmoded eschatologies in both the lost Gospel and Papias’s Exposition.
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Luke and Vergil: Imitations of Classical Greek Literature
These two volumes of The New Testament and Greek Literature are the magnum opus of biblical scholar Dennis R. MacDonald, outlining the profound connections between the New Testament and classical Greek poetry.
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Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation: Luke-Acts as Rival to the Aeneid
In this book MacDonald guides his reader through Luke-Acts from beginning to end to identify and interpret the author's imitations of classical Greek poetry, arguing that Luke's two-volume work was a prose epic to provide his readers with a ...
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From the Earliest Gospel (Q+) to the Gospel of Mark: Solving the Synoptic Problem with Mimesis Criticism
In this book, Dennis R. MacDonald argues that the intertextuality of the Synoptic Gospels is best explained not as the redaction of sources but more flexibly as the imitation of literary texts, such as the Iliad and the Odyssey.