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The Bible, Homer, and the search for meaning in ancient myths : why we would be better off with Homer's gods / John Heath.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heath, John, 1955- author.
- Series:
- Routledge monographs in classical studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homer--Criticism and interpretation.
- Homer.
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Old Testament.
- God.
- Gods, Greek.
- God--Biblical teaching.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xi unnumbered pages, 417 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- 1 [edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2019.
- Contents:
- Brothers (and sisters) from a different mother
- Texts with a history
- Assembling resemblances
- Yahweh and other olympians
- Homer's gods
- Biblical polytheism I: Yahweh's divine competition
- Biblical polytheism II: Yahweh's little helpers
- Biblical anthropomorphism: Yahweh's da man
- Diverging deities: where Homer got it right
- Theological (dis)honesty
- Cleaning up Yahweh
- Homer's perfectly fallible gods
- Creating meaning
- Homeric creation
- The failure of Genesis, the Genesis of failure
- The demands of finitude
- Cheating death, squandering life
- We all have it coming
- Finding justice
- Waiting for God. oh. The myth of Iliadic justice
- Living without the gods: the myth of theistic justice
- Heavenly sex
- Divine eros, biblical celibacy, and God's little punching bag.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Heath, John, 1955- author. Bible, Homer, and the search for meaning in ancient myths
- ISBN:
- 9780367077204
- 0367077205
- OCLC:
- 1083225255
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