(May 31, 2013 at 3:22 am)cato123 Wrote:(May 31, 2013 at 1:34 am)Minimalist Wrote: Don't hold your breath.
The Homeric references are less compelling than he might think. Literacy was so circumscribed in antiquity that virtually every highly literate person would have heard of, if not read, Homer. So I suspect that variants of the Homeric tales appeared in a lot of ancient literature and with a little stretching could be made to resemble almost any hero.
I took this as a central theme to the argument. If Christ's deeds and words were of any unique importance, then why did the very literate authors invoke limited and popular literary themes to express the message?
Why indeed cato. Why did Homer write? I think the Chrestians might be a clue?
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