Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters
- Editor Maren Niehoff
- Subjects: Biblical Studies
- Keywords: Niehoff; culture; canon; JSRC; Hellenistic; Platonism; religion; Alexandria; scholia; exegesis; literature; Christianity
- Publication Year : 2012
- DOI: 10.1163/9789004226111
- E - ISBN : 9789004226111
- Imprint: Brill
- Collections: Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2012
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The present collection of articles brings together scholars from different fields and offers prioneering essays on the Alexandrian scholia, Philo, Platonic thinkers and the rabbis, which cross traditional boundaries and interpret Biblical and Homeric readers in light of each other.
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Preliminary Material
- pp. i–x
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Why Compare Homer’s Readers to Biblical Readers?
- pp. 1–14 (14)
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Canonising and Decanonising Homer: Reception of the Homeric Poems in Antiquity and Modernity
- pp. 15–28 (14)
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Scripture and Paideia in Late Antiquity
- pp. 29–41 (13)
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“Only God Knows the Correct Reading!” The Role of Homer, the Quran and the Bible in the Rise of Philology and Grammar
- pp. 43–83 (41)
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The Ambiguity of Signs: Critical σημεῖα from Zenodotus to Origen
- pp. 85–112 (28)
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Topos didaskalikos and anaphora—Two Interrelated Principles in Aristarchus’ Commentaries
- pp. 113–126 (14)
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Philo and Plutarch on Homer
- pp. 127–153 (27)
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Philo and the Allegorical Interpretation of Homer in the Platonic Tradition (with an Emphasis on Porphyry’s De antro nympharum)
- pp. 155–174 (20)
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The Dispute on Homer: Exegetical Polemic in Galen’s Criticism of Chrysippus
- pp. 175–197 (23)
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Homer within the Bible: Homerisms in the Graecus Venetus
- pp. 199–218 (20)
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The Twenty-Four Books of the Hebrew Bible and Alexandrian Scribal Methods
- pp. 219–244 (26)
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Noblest Obelus: Rabbinic Appropriations of Late Ancient Literary Criticism
- pp. 245–267 (23)
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Re-Scripturizing Traditions: Designating Dependence in Rabbinic Halakhic Midrashim and Homeric Scholarship
- pp. 269–298 (30)
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The Agon with Moses and Homer: Rabbinic Midrash and the Second Sophistic
- pp. 299–328 (30)
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Midrash and Hermeneutic Reflectivity: Kishmu’o As a Test Case
- pp. 329–344 (16)
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From Narrative Practise to Cultural Poetics: Literary Anthropology and the Rabbinic Sense of Self
- pp. 345–367 (23)
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