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This challenge to prevailing views of New Testament sources argues that the origins of passages in the book of Acts are to be found not in early Christian legends but in the epics of Homer. The book focuses on four passages in the book of Acts, examines their potential parallels in the Iliad, and concludes that the author of Acts composed them using famous scenes in Homer's work as a model. Tracing the influence of passages from the Iliad on subsequent ancient literature, it shows how the story generated a vibrant, mimetic literary tradition long before Luke composed the Acts. Luke could have ... More
Keywords: New Testament sources, book of Acts, early Christian legends, epics of Homer, Iliad, ancient literature, mimetic literary tradition, Luke, Christian God, Homeric gods
Print publication date: 2003 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300097702 |
Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300097702.001.0001 |
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