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Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation: Luke-Acts as Rival to the Aeneid

Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation: Luke-Acts as Rival to the Aeneid

Hardcover

PhilosophyBible StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1978701381
ISBN13: 9781978701380
Publisher: Fortress Academic
Published: Oct 25 2018
Pages: 278
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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 foundation myth for the new social reality that the Christian Church had become.

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