Peter Kerry Powers’s Reviews > Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea > Status Update
Peter Kerry Powers
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The author uses myth deftly. He's not pious toward the traditional myth of Prometheus, but there is enough there to feel a skewed similarity. As if coming across a person in an airport who you feel certain you knew in another life you can't remember.the Greek myth is stripped away from its civilized accretions and put into a grittier world that somehow still has the unreality of a dream.
— Jan 13, 2012 09:35PM
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Peter Kerry Powers
is on page 114 of 384
I'm intrigued by the use of conjecture and imaginative backfilling that is required of a history of this type. "It may have been" becomes the groundwork of narrative building. And that's the rub: we do not have THE narrative so we must build one as a kind of historical act of faith.
— Aug 02, 2011 07:01PM
Peter Kerry Powers
is on page 85 of 384
So far an interesting study of Origen's literary and intellectual contexts, but not exactly what I thought it would. Was anticipating more of a study of the role of the book in early Christianity and the role of Christianity on the early history of the book.
— Aug 01, 2011 07:37PM
