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New book published December 6, 2022. Paperback available from Amazon.


Synospses of Epic, Tragedy, and the Gospels, by Dennis R. MacDonald, (Claremont: CA: Μίμησις, Mimesis Press), 3 vols. bound together, 564 pp., 24. ill., 21 x 27 cm 


paperback ISBN: 979-8-9867801-1-5

Call Number: BS2560.A2 M33 2022


Volume 1 : Mimetic Synopsis of Four Synoptic Gospels (Q+, Mark, Matthew, and Luke)

IMITATIONS OF DEUTERONOMY, HOMER, AND ATHENIAN TRAGEDIES


Volume 2: Mimetic Syncrisis of the Acts of the Apostles

IMITATIONS OF HOMER AND EURIPIDES AND RIVALRY WITH THE AENEID


Volume 3: Mimetic Synopsis of Three Gospels of John

IMITATIONS OF THE SYNOPTICS AND EURIPIDES’ BACCHAE

From the Earliest Gospel (Q+) to the Gospel of Mark : Solving the Synoptic Problem with Mimesis Criticism, co-authored with James R. Van Dore  (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2020).

Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation : Luke-Acts as Rival to the Aeneid (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2019) 

The Dionysian Gospel : The Fourth Gospel and Euripides (Fortress Press, 2017.

Mythologizing Jesus: From Jewish Teacher to Epic Hero (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

Dennis MacDonald shows how Gospel stories parallel many Greek and Roman epics from walking on water to visiting the land of the dead to compel first-century readers into life-changing decisions to follow Jesus. MacDonald doesn't call into question the existence of Jesus but rather asks readers to examine the Gospels through a new, mythological lens.

WorldCat 

The Gospels and Homer: Imitations of Greek Epic in Mark and Luke-Acts. (The New Testament and Classical Greek Literature, v. 1) (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).

Luke and Vergil: Imitations of Euripides, Plato, and Homer in the Aeneid, Luke-Acts, and John (New Testament and Greek Literature, v. 2; Rowman & Littlefield , 2014.

Two Shipwrecked Gospels: The Logoi of Jesus and Papias’s Exposition of Logia about the Lord (Early Christianity and its literature, 8), (Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012).

My Turn : A Critique of Critics of "Mimesis Criticism," Occasional papers (Institute for Antiquity and Christianity), no. 53 (Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, 2009).

Acts of Andrew (Early Christian apocrypha & ; v. 1.), (Santa Rosa, CA: Polebridge Press, 2005).

Does the New Testament Imitate Homer?: Four Cases from the Acts of the Apostles (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003)..

The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000).

The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles in Intertextual perspectives, with Robert F. Stoops (Semeia, 80), Society of Biblical Literature, 1997.

Christianizing Homer: The Odyssey, Plato, and the Acts of Andrew (Oxford, UK & New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).

The Acts of Andrew and the Acts of Andrew and Matthias in the City of the Cannibals (Texts and translations ; 33. Christian apocrypha series ; no. 1), (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1990).

There Is No Male and Female: The Fate of a Dominical Saying in Paul and Gnosticism (Harvard dissertations in religion ; no. 20), (Fortress Press, 1987).

The apocryphal Acts of apostles (Semeia, 38), (The Society of Biblical Literature, 1986).

The Legend and the Apostle: The Battle for Paul in Story and Canon (Philadelphia, PA: Westminster John Knox Press, 1983).

Rediscovering Paul, (Pinchpenny Press, 1980), 17 p.

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