Dionysian Gospel : The Fourth Gospel And Euripides
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Introduction
1. The Beginning Of The Johannine Tradition
2. The Earliest Gospel Stratum And Euripides’s Bacchae: An Intertextual Commentary
3. Rewriting The Gospel
4. The Final Gospel Stratum And A Johannine Corpus
Appendices
1. A Conjectural Reconstruction Of The Dionysian Gospel
2. Euripides’s Bacchae
3. The Sinful Woman (John 7:53-8:11)
Bibliography
Index
Additional Info
“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 sounds themes that would have instantly been recognized as proper to the Greek god Dionysos (the Roman Bacchus), not least as he was depicted in Euripides’s play The Bacchae. A divine figure, the offspring of a divine father and human mother, takes on flesh to live among mortals but is rejected by his own. He miraculously provides wine and offers it as a sacred gift to his devotees, women prominent among them, dies a violent death-and returns to life. Yet John takes his drama in a dramatically different direction: while Euripides’s Dionysos exacts vengeance on the Theban throne, the Johannine Christ offers life to his followers. MacDonald employs mimesis criticism to argue that the earliest evangelist not only imitated Euripides but expected his readers to recognize Jesus as greater than Dionysos.
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SKU (ISBN): 9781506423456
ISBN10: 1506423450
Dennis MacDonald
Binding: Cloth Text
Published: April 2017
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers – 1517 Media
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