Christianizing Homer: The Odyssey, Plato, and the Acts of Andrew

by Dennis Ronald MacDonald

This study focuses on the apocryphal Acts of Andrew (c. 200 CE), which purports to tell the story of the travels, miracles, and martyrdom of the apostle Andrew. Traditional scholarship has looked for the background of such writings in Jewish and Christian scriptures. MacDonald, however, breaks with that model and looks to classic literature for the sources of this story. Specifically, he argues that the Acts represent an attempt to transform Greco-Roman...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195087224
• ISBN13: 9780195087222
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"