New Testament and Homer
Title: New Testament and Homer
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 1228 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
New Testament and Homer
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 1228 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Hebrew and Greek attitudes toward killing are similar, but once religion is factored in a remarkable difference is revealed. Early Hebrew citizens were murderous people by nature, much like the Greeks, but had God looking down on them saying to them that killing was wrong. Greek citizens would engage in war and human sacrifices with the gods on their side, and even sometimes the gods would take part in the murdering. The Greek way of
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freedom. The Greeks killed to please the Gods and to please their state, neither of these are a value in Hebrew life. Although Hebrews and Greeks killed a lot with little thought towards it, Hebrew culture was plagued with God's guilt over you, while in Greek culture you could profit from killing.
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Holy Bible New King James Version, 1988, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee.
Homer. The Odyssey. Tr. Robert Fagles, New York: NY, 1996.