Dionysus Resurrected

Dionysus Resurrected
Author: Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2014-01-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1405175788

Dionysus Resurrected analyzes the global resurgence since the late 1960s of Euripides’ The Bacchae. By analyzing and contextualizing these modern day performances, the author reveals striking parallels between transformational events taking place during the era of the play’s revival and events within the play itself. Puts forward a lively discussion of the parallels between transformational eventsduring the era of the play’s revival and events within the play itself The first comparative study to analyse and contextualize performances of The Bacchae that took place between 1968 and 2009 from the United States, Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia Argues that presentations of the play not only represent liminal states but also transfer the spectators into such states Contends that the play’s reflection on various stages of globalization render the tragedy a contemporary play Establishes the importance of The Bacchae within Euripides’ work as the only extant tragedy in which the god Dionysus himself appears, not just as a character but as the protagonist

Greek Resurrection Beliefs and the Success of Christianity

Greek Resurrection Beliefs and the Success of Christianity
Author: D. Endsjø
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2009-06-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0230622569

This book examines the relationship between the growth of Christianity in Greece and the belief in resurrection from the dead. It gives a clear presentation of various generally unknown aspects about traditional Greek religion, such as stories about people being made physically immortal and the Greek fascination with the flesh.

Leisure Resurrected

Leisure Resurrected
Author: Jeffrey Paul Crittenden
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2023-04-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666751170

As the church emerges from the impact of COVID, how will it reimagine its mission? With all the disruption COVID caused comes an opportunity for congregations. How will the local church organize itself, engage with the neighborhood and world, and offer pastoral care to a planet dealing with the significant issues heightened during COVID? Returning to old patterns of behavior is a wasted chance. A theological opportunity for the church lies in rediscovering the classical aim of leisure. The early church during the first two centuries offers us an understanding of leisure quite unique from the dominant expressions of leisure, such as Greek schole, Roman otium, and the Jewish Sabbath. By exploring early Christian practices, we can find insights about leisure for mission today. These practices include setting aside a single day of the week to worship, sharing in a common meal open to all, and, following the meal, incorporating into nonwork time care and engagement in the health and vitality of the community in the name of Jesus Christ. The followers of Jesus were consistent, if extraordinary, in meeting weekly, on the Lord’s Day, to worship, eat together, and go out into the neighborhood to live out their faith.

The Dionysian Gospel

The Dionysian Gospel
Author: Dennis R. MacDonald
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2017-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1506421660

“Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them.” Dennis R. MacDonald offers a provocative explanation of those scandalous words of Christ from the Fourth Gospel—an explanation that he argues would hardly have surprised some of the Gospel’s early readers. John sounds themes that would have instantly been recognized as proper to the Greek god Dionysos (the Roman Bacchus), not least as he was depicted in Euripides’s play The Bacchae. A divine figure, the offspring of a divine father and human mother, takes on flesh to live among mortals, but is rejected by his own. He miraculously provides wine and offers it as a sacred gift to his devotees, women prominent among them, dies a violent death—and returns to life. Yet John takes his drama in a dramatically different direction: while Euripides’s Dionysos exacts vengeance on the Theban throne, the Johannine Christ offers life to his followers. MacDonald employs mimesis criticism to argue that the earliest Evangelist not only imitated Euripides but expected his readers to recognize Jesus as greater than Dionysos.

The Son of Man

The Son of Man
Author: George W. Barclay Jr.
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2010-10-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1450266908

Sequel to Road to Damascus. DEATH TO USA and DEATH TO ALL AMERICANS were painted in blood on multiple walls in downtown Tehran. The desecrated American fl ag with blood or red paint shocked her and death to the USA meant her among others. It meant all Americans! The poison and evil of the clergy, Mullahs and Immans, were palpable like a paraclete from darkness, like a paraclete from hell. The Mullahs never stopped. They pounded their chest and yelled, Allahu Akbar and death to the USA. Sandra was too young to remember what Germany was like under Hitlers spell. A whole nation could be mesmerized by evil and become evil. Islam was evil! The Mullahs were evil, and Iran was evil. They wore veils and borqas and hovered close. WARNING: Contains violence, profanity, and erotic sex. NOT FOR DUMMIES.

Ritual Texts for the Afterlife

Ritual Texts for the Afterlife
Author: Fritz Graf
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 113675072X

Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were deposited in graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeks and Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it. These texts, dating from the late fifth century BCE to the second century CE, have been part of the scholarly debate on ancient afterlife beliefs since the end of the nineteenth century. Recent finds and analysis of the texts have reshaped our understanding of their purpose and of the perceived afterlife. The tablets belonged to those who had been initiated into the mysteries of Dionysus Bacchius and relied heavily upon myths narrated in poems ascribed to the mythical singer Orpheus. After providing the Greek text and a translation of all the available tablets, the authors analyze their role in the mysteries of Dionysus, and present an outline of the myths concerning the origins of humanity and of the sacred texts that the Greeks ascribed to Orpheus. Related ancient texts are also appended in English translations. Providing the first book-length edition and discussion of these enigmatic texts in English, and their first English translation, this book is essential to the study of ancient Greek religion.

Conceived in Sin

Conceived in Sin
Author: George W Barclay Jr
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2006-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595407676

This is the Bible for the twenty-first century and requires a scholarly knowledge of science and metaphysics. "Earth Sciences will be taught in the third grade. Quantum Physics, General Relativity, and the Theory of Everything will be taught in the eighth grade. Religion will merge with science, philosophy, and metaphysics and be taught as Social Science." Dr. Amy Omikami, Professor of Astrophysics, USN. "Life was a Cosmological imperative. We all came from star stuff. Doctrinal seminaries are obsolete, absurd, and boring. Our university will present philosophy, religion, and science as a single mosaic of cognitive experience." Maria Tantalia, Present of Board, USN.

Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism

Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism
Author: Robert Gooding-Williams
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2001
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780804732956

In arguing that Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism, the author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy.

The Gentle, Jealous God

The Gentle, Jealous God
Author: Simon Perris
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2016-10-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1472513010

Euripides' Bacchae is the magnum opus of the ancient world's most popular dramatist and the most modern, perhaps postmodern, of Greek tragedies. Twentieth-century poets and playwrights have often turned their hand to Bacchae, leaving the play with an especially rich and varied translation history. It has also been subjected to several fashions of criticism and interpretation over the years, all reflected in, influencing, and influenced by translation. The Gentle, Jealous God introduces the play and surveys its wider reception; examines a selection of English translations from the early 20th century to the early 21st, setting them in their social, intellectual, and cultural context; and argues, finally, that Dionysus and Bacchae remain potent cultural symbols even now. Simon Perris presents a fascinating cultural history of one of world theatre's landmark classics. He explores the reception of Dionysus, Bacchae, and the classical ideal in a violent and turmoil-ridden era. And he demonstrates by example that translation matters, or should matter, to readers, writers, actors, directors, students, and scholars of ancient drama.

MANY MANSIONS

MANY MANSIONS
Author: GEORGE W. BARCLAY jR.
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2011-02-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1450297242

SEQUEL TO NAYPYIDAW, SON OF MAN, AND BLACK FIRST LADY. Saint Nicholas Anthropology Holy Land Tour leave Allah Land and land in Barcelona, the city.of sun and fun where women drive autos, wear bikinis, drink wine, and eat baked suckling pig. An atomic bomb exploded over Naypyidaw, and Bangladesh declares war on Myanmar.. Don Tantalia and Penny meet Bob and Elvis in Kuala Lampur. Bangladesh agrees to negoti ate for a piece of Karen State along their common border. Aung San Suu Kyi is sworn in as President of the Republic of Burma. and appoints General LiShan “protector” of the former Autonomous Shan State with capital at Mandalay. The USN tour holds over at Zurich and gets caught in the Xmas rush at Heathrow. Jes’us Posada’s returns as CatholicPriest. WARNING: Book contains violence, profanity, and eroti c sex. Borderline for DUMMIES. GWBJ.