Dennis MacDonald, New Testament professor at Claremont School of Theology, is on to talk about his book Mythologizing Jesus: From Jewish Teacher to Epic Hero. Get ready to talk about the New Testament and Greek literature, and maybe even preach it, too.

Dennis talks about the use of Greek literature and myth by the early Church, the similarities and differences between the New Testament narratives and Greek literature, and why the early Church would have written stories about Jesus in this way.

Plus, Tripp and Dennis talk about sourcing Mark and the other Synoptic Gospels, Mark's innovation and its affect on the life of the church, how it is more mythologizing than biography, and what Nietzsche might have to say about all of this.

Also by Dennis, Christianizing Homer and The Gospels and Homer.

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