Lexington Books / Fortress Academic
Pages: 278
Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-9787-0138-0 • Hardback • October 2018 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-9787-0139-7 • eBook • October 2018 • $99.50 • (£77.00)
Dennis R. MacDonald has taught New Testament and Christian origins at Goshen College, Iliff School of Theology, and the Claremont School of Theology.
Introduction
Part 1. A Mimetic Commentary on the Gospel of Luke
Part 2. A Mimetic Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles
Conclusion: Mimesis Criticism and Luke’s Politics of Homeric Imitation
Appendix 1. Luke’s Retention of Mark’s Homeric Mimesis
Appendix 2. The Sequence of Imitations in Luke-Acts
Yet another heroic scholarly feat from Dennis R. MacDonald! With this book, his fourth major contribution to mimesis criticism in many years, MacDonald solidifies his standing as the world’s foremost pioneer and leading scholar on the imitation of Homer and Virgil within the Gospels and Acts. Many of the imitations detailed here have never before appeared in scholarship. Even those mentioned previously in MacDonald’s earlier works find far richer explanations and quotations in this book. Classicists, New Testament scholars, and anyone curious about the foundations of early Christianity will find just how deeply they rest on the bedrock of Greco-Roman epic and myth.
— Mark G. Bilby, California State University, Fullerton