1st Edition
Vergil and the Trinity Appropriation, Revision, and Distortion of Rome’s Greatest Poet
Introduction; 1. Vergil’s Aeneid: An Instant Classic Admired and Subverted; 2. Methodological Considerations; 3. Monotheistic Arguments in the Aeneid?; 4. The Birth of the Child: Eclogue 4 and Jesus; 5. The Spiritus of Vergil and the Holy Spirit; Conclusion.
Biography
Thomas W. Dilbeck is a professor in the Biblical Studies department at Florida College, USA. His recent publications include “The Speech of Anchises and Arguments for Monotheism in Minucius Felix and Lactantius” and “Prepositional Metaphysics and Vergil in Jerome’s Exegesis of Ephesians 4:6”.
"D. traces the most important stages in the Christian appropriation of Virgil in a stimulating manner - from the beginnings of Christian Latin literature to Jerome. Unlike previous research, the book does not focus on questions of citation technique or the evaluation of pagan texts, but on the theological interactions between Christianity and pagan thought. This provides important impulses for understanding the transformation from pagan to Christian antiquity." - Stefan Freund, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
