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Hermeneutische Untersuchungen Zur Theologie
Herausgegeben von Hans Dierter Betz . Gerhard Ebling . Manfred Mezger . 26 Arthur J. Droge Homer or Moses? George Eliot wrote in Daniel Deronda: "Man can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning" The present book is a study of how, in the last centuries of antiquity, Christianity was able to fashion a new beginning of the world and of mankind--a beginning based not on the mythos of Homer or Hesiod, but on those of Moses. The subject of this book is a group of writers, commonly known as "apologists", in whose works it is possible to discern the initial steps towards a Christian interpretation of the history of culture. Their achievement was revolutionary, marking the beginning of a new understanding of history within the thinking of the early church and, indeed, western antiquity as a whole.