This episode completes our study of The Monomyth or Hero's Journey as termed by Joseph Campbell. We take a detailed look at the life of Jesus of Nazareth, and the similarities and differences between his narrative and the stories of Abraham, Moses and David.
Topics Covered:
- Jesus' birth and it's nods to Moses
- The motif of the miraculous birth
- Representations of the rural and the urban in Ancient Literature
- Being born during a genocide
- Why "there was no room at the inn"
- More similarities to Moses and David at birth
- Jesus' temptation in the wilderness as a reinterpretation of Israel in Sinai
- Jesus' 1st miracle as call to adventure, and why he did it when he did it.
- Jesus preaching to lost souls in the Underworld...
- Similarities between Jesus' and Moses' "Return Home".
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Texts:
Luke 2, Matthew 4, John 2:1-11, Matthew 20:17-34, Isaiah 53:3-12, John 19, I Peter 3:19, Mark 16:14-20
