viii, pages ; 24 cm. "In this book, Dennis R. MacDonald offers a new view of the New Testament gospel of Mark. 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 . Verified Purchase. 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 www.doorway.ru by: Dennis R. MacDonald. Description Reviews. In this groundbreaking book, Dennis R. MacDonald offers an entirely new view of the New Testament gospel of Mark. 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 .
Dr. Macdonald has an A.B., Bob Jones University; www.doorway.ru, McCormick Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Harvard University MacDonald proposes a theory wherein the earliest books of the New Testament were responses to the Homeric Epics, including the Gospel of Mark and the Acts of the Apostles. The methodology he pioneered is called Mimesis Criticism. The Homeric Epic and the Gospel of Mark. By Dennis R. MacDonald. Pp. x + Yale University Press, ISBN ο 3oo o8oi2 3. £ MacDonald'S thesis in this book is that Mark 'used the Odyssey as his primary literary inspiration but also imitated Books 22 and 24 of the Iliad for narrating Jesus' death and burial' (p. 3). To. Concerning Dennis R. MacDonald's 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.. That said, what of this work (hereafter HEGM for short)? Has it accomplished its goal of proving that the Gospel of Mark is a.
The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark. Dennis Ronald MacDonald, The Homeric epics and the Gospel of Mark. New Haven: Yale University Press, viii, pages ; 24 cm. ISBN $ Early in Chariton’s Callirhoe the narrator, using a line from Homer, describes a girl’s reaction to the news of her impending marriage: “At this her knees collapsed and the heart within her” (Od. and elsewhere). The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark. In this groundbreaking book, Dennis R. MacDonald offers an entirely new view of the New Testament gospel of Mark. The author of the earliest gospel was not. 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.
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