The Dionysian Gospel: The Fourth Gospel and Euripides
- ISBN-10
- 1506423450
- ISBN-13
- 9781506423456
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 260
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-03-01
- Publisher
- Fortress Press
- Author
- MacDonald
Description
MacDonald observes that the Fourth Gospel sounds themes proper to the Greek god Dionysos (the Roman Bacchus), not least as he was depicted in Euripidess play The Bacchae. A divine figure, offspring of a divine father and human mother, takes on flesh to live among mortals, but is rejected by his own; miraculously provides wine; includes women as his close devotees; dies a violent deathand returns to life. The Johannine Evangelist not only imitated Euripides but expected his readers to recognize Jesus as greater than Dionysos.
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