RE: Excavating The Empty Tomb
June 4, 2013 at 11:56 am
(This post was last modified: June 4, 2013 at 11:57 am by Tonus.)
(June 4, 2013 at 11:38 am)Rhythm Wrote: I suppose when you invest the time to draw parallels you want to make sure your audience gets the full measure of what you see. As ever with these narratives, we are free to assign our own value to the relative importance of any comparison between parts.
That was what I found most compelling and interesting about it. The notion that Mark (or any writer of the time) would be influenced by old legends and myths struck me as obvious once it was made and demonstrated, and I enjoyed that part. But I think it drags on. "Odysseus escaped by clinging to the underside of a sheep. The demons escaped by possessing swine. See the parallel???" Errr, well... not really. A number of the comparisons are much better and give the viewer something to think about, and limiting it would have had more impact IMO.
As an aside, the links Drich provided are just encyclopedia entries for Odysseus. Am I missing something?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
