Christianizing Homer: The Odyssey, Plato, and the Acts of Andrew
- ISBN-10
- 0195087224
- ISBN-13
- 9780195087222
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994-04-21
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press on Demand
- Author
- Dennis R. MacDonald
Description
MacDonald focuses on the apocryphal Acts of Andrew (c. 200 C.E.), which purports to tell of the travels, miracles, and martyrdom of the apostle Andrew. He argues that the Acts are an attempt to transform Greco-Roman myth into Christian narrative categories by telling the story in terms of Homeric epic.
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