Challenge of Homer

School, Pagan Poets and Early Christianity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

AvKarl Olav Sandnes,Chris Keith

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Homer was the gateway to education, to the skills of reading and writing. These skills were necessary for the nascent Church. Knowledge of Homer's writings was a sign of Greekness, of at-home-ness in the society. Education was embedded in the mythology, immorality and idolatry of these writings. This challenged the Christians. This study presents how Christians responded to this. The opinions varied from rejection of Homer and all pagan literature, considering them works of the Devil, to critical involvement with this literature.This study attempts to trace the discourse on Homer and education among the Christians back to the New Testament. The topic does not come to the surface, but it is argued that in Paul's letters contrasting attitudes towards the propaideutic logic and the philosophical principle of usus (making right use of) are present. He opposed a logic wherein Christian faith represented the peak of education, the culmination of liberal studies. In his instruction on how to relate to the pagan world, Paul argues in accordance with the principle of usus. The New Testament is not so dependent upon the Homeric poems, as assumed by some scholars.The first Christians faced two hermeneutical challenges of fundamental importnce: that of interpreting the Old Testament and how to cope with the Greek legacy embedded in Homer. The latter is not explicitly raised in the New Testament. But since the art of interpreting any text, presupposes reading skills, conveyed through liberal studies, the Homeric challenge must have been of outmost importance.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-03-12
Mått156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt653 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLibrary of New Testament Studies
Antal sidor336
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780567426642

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Part One: School, Homer and Encyclical Education in Antiquity1. Introduction and Method2. School in the Greco-Roman World3. The Pivotal Role of Homer4. Knowledge and Formation: The Insuffiency of Encyclical Education5. Philo of Alexandria: A Hellenistic Jew on Greek EducationPart Two: The Christian Agôn over Encyclical Studies in the first Centuries C.E.7. Justin Martyr, his student Tatian and Two Ps.Justins8. The Apostolic Tradition: Prohibited Occupations9. The Teaching of the Apostles (Didaskalia Apostolorum) and Syriac tradition: "Avoid all the Books of the Gentiles"10. Tertullian: Learning but not Teaching Encyclical Studies11. Clement and Origen: Christian Teachers in Alexandria11.1 Clement of Alexandria: Propaideia Protects Faith11.2 Origen: The Silver and Gold of the Egyptians11.3 Origen and Celsos: Christian faith for the Unlearned?12. Flavius Claudius Julianus - Emperor and Apostate: Christian Teachers are Immoral13. The Cappadocian Fathers13.1 Basil of Caesarea/Basil the Great: Ad Adolescentes13.2 Gregory of Nazianzus' Encomium for Basil13.3 Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Moses14. Jerome: An Ascetic Addicted to Greek Learning15. Augustine: Liberal Studies - A Window on the Relationship between Greek Culture and Christian Faith16. Summing up part twoCommon GroundOpposition to Encyclical StudiesEncyclical Studies cannot be avoidedAdvocates of Encyclical StudiesArguments Employed in the DebateThe CriticsAdvocatesActing like BeesAll or Nothing? Part Three: Looking Back to the New Testament17. The New Testament and Encyclical Studies17.1 Homer in the New Testament? An Appraisal of Dennis R. MacDonald's "Mimesis Criticism"17.2 Paul on Encyclical Studies?18. Drawing the Findings Together Bibliography and indices

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