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245 14 a| The Bible, Homer, and the search for meaning in ancient mythsh| [electronic resource] :b| why we would be better off with Homer's gods /c| John Heath.;

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The Bible, Homer, and the search for meaning in ancient myths why we would be better off with Homer's gods / John Heath.

Author/creator	Heath, John, 1955-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Description	1 online resource.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks
Subjects	Homer. Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc. God. Gods, Greek. God--Biblical teaching.

Series	Routledge monographs in classical studies
Contents	Brothers (and sisters) from a different mother -- Texts with a history -- Assembling resemblances -- Yahweh and other olympians -- Homer's gods -- Biblical polytheism I: Yahweh's divine competition -- Biblical polytheism II: Yahweh's little helpers -- Biblical anthropomorphism: Yahweh's da man -- Diverging deities: where Homer got it right -- Theological (dis)honesty -- Cleaning up Yahweh -- Homer's perfectly fallible gods -- Creating meaning -- Homeric creation -- The failure of Genesis, the Genesis of failure -- The demands of finitude -- Cheating death, squandering life -- We all have it coming -- Finding justice -- Waiting for God. oh. The myth of Iliadic justice -- Living without the gods: the myth of theistic justice -- Heavenly sex -- Divine eros, biblical celibacy, and God's little punching bag.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Source of description	Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Issued in other form	Print version: Heath, John, 1955- author. Bible, Homer, and the search for meaning in ancient myths 1 [edition]. New York : Routledge, 2019 9780367077204
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2019011222
ISBN	9780429022340 (ebook)
ISBN	9780429666469 (web pdf)
ISBN	9780429661020 (mobi/kindle)
ISBN	9780429663741 (epub)

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