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Conversations: Can You Smell the God In the Air?! Epiphanies in Antiquity w/ Gillian Glass

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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The Love Strike in the Homeric Him to Aphrodite

It's not necessarily a specific epiphanic moment that is my favourite, but because of the intensity and the volume of epiphany in joseph and aseneth. And i think that it is what those epiphanies represent that make it my favorite. The prophet can't just show up and say, i'm a prophet. Listen to me. There has to be some sort of, I'm a prophet because god chose me, therefore listen to me,. Because you're not actually listening to me. Ezekiel, i am a nobody, but i am the channel for the divine. In order to continue to be a prophet, one is sustaining a relationship with the divine.

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