The Dionysian Gospel : The Fourth Gospel and Euripides /

"Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them." Dennis R. MacDonald offers a provocative explanation of those scandalous words of Christ from the Fourth Gospel--an explanation that he argues would hardly have surprised some of the Gospel's early readers. John s...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: MacDonald, Dennis Ronald, 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Euripides. > Bacchae > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Dionysus > (Greek deity)
Bible. > John > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The beginning of the Johannine tradition
  • 2. The earliest gospel stratum and Euripides' Bacchae : an intertextual commentary
  • 3. Rewriting the Gospel
  • 4. The final gospel stratum and a Johannine corpus
  • Appendix 1. A conjectural reconstruction of the Dionysian gospel
  • Appendix 2. Euripides' Bacchae
  • Appendix 3. The sinful woman (John 7:53-8:11).

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