[B-Greek] The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Tue Aug 29 22:15:24 EDT 2006



"Carl W. Conrad" wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, August 29, 2006, at 07:58PM, Bert de Haan <b_dehaan at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> >I have a question that does not directly concern a specific Greek text but I
> >think it is still within the parameters of B-Greek.
> >
> >I saw a book  on Amazon: The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark by Dennis
> >MacDonald  .
> >
> >http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300080123/002-8488475-4620846?v=glance&n=283155
> >
> >There are several reviews.  I was wondering if any of you who are very
> >familiar with Mark's style and with the Homeric poems have ever noticed
> >anything like this.
> >One comment made me question the validity of one review as it suggests that
> >Mark made up the stories to point out the parallels with Homer but I can't
> >comment on Mark's style as compared to the Homeric Epics.
>
> I read this several years ago when it first came out and was not much impressed. As I recall, however, there was a lengthy discussion of it on the GMark list, and I suppose you could search those archives.

The discussion took place in January & February of 2001 with MacDonald himself participating.

The Kata Markon (G-Mark) archives are located here:

http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/gmark/

Yours,

Jeffrey

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