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The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark Christian ~ The overwhelming majority of parallels drawn in The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark are the product of MacDonald’s vague generalizations fertile imagination and literary manipulations It is significant that MacDonald tells the reader early in his book that detecting and appreciating the parallels he draws requires “patience generosity and above all imagination” 9

Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark Yale University Press ~ The author of the earliest gospel was not writing history nor was he merely recording tradition MacDonald argues Close reading and careful analysis show that Mark borrowed extensively from the Odyssey and the Iliad and that he wanted his readers to recognize the Homeric antecedents in Mark’s story of Jesus Mark was composing a prose antiepic MacDonald says presenting Jesus as a suffering hero modeled after but far superior to traditional Greek heroes

The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark Dennis R ~ Dennis R MacDonald Claremont School of Theology offers in The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark a daring proposal to explain the style and origins of the Gospel of Mark Mark was written not with history in mind but rather Homer’s epic The Odyssey and thus constructed the life of Jesus to mirror and in some cases succeed the trials of the heroic Odysseus

The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark by Dennis Ronald ~ This work claims that Marks Gospel draws extensively from the Homeric epics especially The Odyssey and a couple of chapters from The Illiad Conclusions are unescapable upon finishing Marks Gospel is not an historical account of reallife characters Its a work of art very cleverly written with clear theological aims

The Gospel of Mark Homers Epics ~ The Gospel of Mark Homers Epics All scholars acknowledge Marks debt to Old Testament stories and sayings What is not often remembered however is that Homers epics were the basic educational texts of everyone in the ancient world who could write Greek and that their stories were widely known and often adapted and imitated by ancient writers

Review of The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark ~ MacDonalds shocking thesis is that the Gospel of Mark is a deliberate and conscious antiepic an inversion of the Greek Bible of Homers Iliad and Odyssey which in a sense updates and Judaizes the outdated heroic values presented by Homer in the figure of a new hero Jesus

Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark critical examination ~ The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark A Critical Examination Concerning Dennis R MacDonalds Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark a preface Even if every argument that MacDonald offers is valid there is still a complex of material and arguments the Pauline letters for example that his thesis has no effect upon at all

The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark Dennis Ronald ~ Mark was composing a prose antiepic MacDonald says presenting Jesus as a suffering hero modeled after but far superior to traditional Greek heroes Much like Odysseus Marks Jesus sails

Is Marks Gospel Based on Homers Odyssey ~ Thus he argues that the Gospel of Mark emulating Homeric epics can be understood as transvaluative of the Iliad and Odyssey Marks aemulatio arises from a desire to provide a new and improved role model which is superior to the pagan gods and heroes Parallels Between Mark and Homer