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Jesus the Epic Hero: The Theology of Empress Eudocia's Homeric Gospel

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by Karl Olav Sandnes

    • Author

      Karl Olav Sandnes

    • Book Format

      Hardcover

    • Publisher

      Lexington Books

    • Published

      August 2022

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      Jesus the Epic Hero: The Theology of Empress Eudocia's Homeric Gospel

      Today's Price £62.80

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      The ancient cento-genre was prone to be used on all kinds of subjects. New texts were created out of the classical epics. Empress Eudocia followed this practice and composed the story of Jesus in lines lifted almost verbatim from Homer's epics. Jesus and his relevance to her audience is thus presented within the confines of style and vocabulary offered by the Iliad and Odyssey. The lines picked to convey her theology are often clustered around key Homeric motifs or type scenes, such as warfare, homecoming, feast, reconciliation, hospitality. Jesus waging war against all evil and Hades in particular runs throughout this Homeric and simultaneously biblical epic. The story starts in the Old Testament which is conceived as a divine counsel on Mt. Olympus where a plan to save sinful humanity is presented. The narrative then follows the biographic lines of the canonical gospels, with John's Gospel holding pride of place in the way she renders and interprets the Jesus-story. The story told suspends both the geography and time of Jesus. Eudocia preaches the story she tells. She emerges in this poem as one of the most, if not the most prolific female theologian and preacher in the first Christian centuries.

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      • Author

        Karl Olav Sandnes

      • Book Format

        Hardcover

      • Publisher

        Lexington Books

      • Published

        August 2022

      • Weight

        477g

      • Dimensions

        152 x 229 x 17 mm

      • ISBN

        9781666908626

      • ISBN-10

        1666908622

      • Eden Code

        5703726

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      • Author/Creator: Karl Olav Sandnes

      • ISBN: 9781666908626

      • Publisher: Lexington Books

      • Release Date: August 2022

      • Weight: 477g

      • Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 17 mm

      • Eden Code: 5703726

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