ホメロスとウェルギリウス風の福音書 The Gospel 'According to Homer and Virgil' : Cento and Canon (Supplements to Novum Testamentum)

ホメロスとウェルギリウス風の福音書<br>The Gospel 'According to Homer and Virgil' : Cento and Canon (Supplements to Novum Testamentum)

ホメロスとウェルギリウス風の福音書
The Gospel 'According to Homer and Virgil' : Cento and Canon (Supplements to Novum Testamentum)

Sandnes, Karl Olav

Brill Academic Pub（2011/03発売）

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製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 280 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9789004187184
DDC分類 809.19382

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In the fourth century C.E. some Christians paraphrased the stories about Jesus' life in the style of classical epics. Imitating the genre of centos, they stitched together lines taken either from Homer (Greek) or Virgil (Latin). They thus created new texts out of the classical epics, while they still remained fully within the confines of their style and vocabulary. It is the aim of this study to put these attempts into a historical and rhetorical context. Why did some Christians rewrite the Gospel stories in this way, and what came out of this? On the basis of these Christian centos, it is natural to address the view held by some scholars, namely that New Testaments narratives are imitations of the epics.

1 Introduction: The Context of the Study
2 The Rhetorical Context of Biblical Epics
3 Why Imitate Classical Texts?
4 What is a Cento?
5 Faltonia Betitia Proba: The Gospel "According to Virgil"
6 Eudocia Athenais: The Gospel "According to Homer"
7 Summary