Reading works for BIBLE
Choose one of the following as the topic of a response no longer than (but not much less than) three-pages, double spaced.
1.Describe how allegory works as a technique of interpretation and then explain how it can be deployed in a Christian interpretation of the Aeneid and the Gospel of Luke
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2.Virgil, in his first six books, closely tracks the Odyssey. Explain where and how he asserts his differences from the Homeric work he is otherwise imitating, and with what main effect
3.Explain the difference between our understanding of the nature of Plato’s philosophy in his own time, and then explain how the Christian Neoplatonists of the Renaissance regarded him, and what main ideas they took from him.
4.Antigone is in many ways a complex and disturbing play. Discuss the ways in which the character of Antigone can be understood according to the judgment an audience member or reader might bring to bear. Do Aristotle’s terms for analyzing tragedy help with this question, as for example, on the nature of the protagonist, the hamartia, the peripateia?
