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

by Karl Olav Sandnes

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

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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

    October 2022

  • Weight

    477g

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781666908626

  • ISBN-10

    1666908622

  • Eden Code

    5703726

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