Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation : Luke-Acts as Rival to the Aeneid

By Dennis R. MacDonald

In this book MacDonald guides his reader through Luke-Acts from beginning to end to identify and interpret the author's imitations of classical Greek poetry, arguing that Luke's two-volume work was a prose epic to provide his readers with a foundation myth for the new social reality that the Christian Church had become.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978701381
• ISBN13: 9781978701380
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Fortress Academic
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"