1 The Night of the Living Savior, ch 5, The ruin of rationalism, para. ‘Gacarene demoniac’. Dr Price kindly allowed me to see his text prior to publication.

2 The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000), ch. 8, pp. 63—76.

3 The lectio difficilior. I. Howard Marshall Luke (Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1978), pp. 336—37.

4 A character at Xenophon, Syposium 3.5 says, ‘I can recite the whole Iliad and Odyssey by heart’. Homer the educator of Greece: Plato, Rep . 10, 606E. On Homer’s status see Oliver Taplin, ‘Homer’, in John Boardman, et al., ed., The Oxford History of the Classical World (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), pp. 50—75 at p. 50.

5 Hugo Rahner, Greek Myths and Christian Mystery (London: Burns & Oates, 1963), chs 6—7.

6 Anaxagoras at Diogenes Laertius, Lives 2.11; Epictetus, Diss. 4.36. Rahner, Myths, p. 332.

7 For example: C. K. Barrett, John, 1st edn (London: SPCK, 1967), p. 521. Exceptions are very scarce, e.g. George Beasley-Murray, John, WBC 31 (Nashville, TN: Nelson, 1999), p. 357 apropos of John 11:37 and C. H. Dodd, Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel (Cambridge: University Press, 1965), p. 19 (Od. 17.309—310 apropos of Matt 15:26—27.

8 Even at The History of the Synoptic Tradition (Oxford: Blackwell, 1968), pp. 221—26, 231. His mention of legends as literary work points away from Greek literature. The exception at p. 292 n. 2 is disappointing (read ‘ Od. 11.248ff.’).

9 Hermann Strack and Paul Billerbeck, Kommentar zum Neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrasch (4 Volumes; Munich: Beck, 1926—29 reprinted 1969), vol. 4, pt 1, pp. 348 §3, 405, 407, 408 (n).

10 J. D. M. Derrett, ‘Legend and Event: The Gerasene Demoniac’, in E. A. Livingstone, ed., Studia Biblica 1978, vol. 2, JSNT Suppl 2 (Sheffield 1980), pp. 63—73 = Studies in the New Testament, vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 1982), pp. 47—58; the same, ‘Spirit-possession and the Gerasene Demoniac’, Man, n.s., 14 (1978), pp. 287—93.

11 Od. 10.400, 455, 481, 574; 11. 6—9; 12.148—150.

12 J. D. M. Derrett, ‘The First Miracle Resurrected’ (Exp. Times 118/4 (2007), pp. 174—76.

13 Mishnah, Avôt III.2—4; H. Danby, The Mishnah (Oxford, 1933), p. 450.

14 Od 1.319—320; 410; cf. 420; Il. 3.420. Cf. Philostratus Life of Apollonius of Tyana 8.5; 8.8—11 (Loeb edn, vol. 2, pp. 283, 357—61).

15 Homeric Hymn to Demeter (II), 275—80. Od. 1.105; 2.268, 401; 6.22—23; 7.20—21; 8.193—194; 10.277—307; 13.221, 288—289, 313. Il. 2.280, 792, 795; 3.121—122; 4.86; 5.662, 604; 7.389; 13.357; 14.136; 17.73, 583; 22.227. Even self-revealed: Od. 12.241—250; 13.299—310. Disguise not imperative: Od. 7.201—202 (the god-fearing Phaeacians 9.176).

16 Aeneid 1.314—326, 330, 667, 678.

17 Il. 5.177, 191. Recognition can occur: Od. 1.420; 5.76—80; Il. 1.194—206; 3.398; 5.818; 17.334. Clandestine activity is normal: Il. 22.276—277.

18 Bultmann, History, 286. Price likens this story to that at Epidaurus, inscription 25. Meanwhile a complete Old Testament dossier is provided by Joe Barnhart, ‘What happened on the way to Emmaus?’, Journal of Higher Criticism 12/2 (2006), pp. 83—86.

19 J. D. M. Derrett, ‘Supernatural Powers’, Christian Parapsychologist 16/4 (2004), pp. 120—21 (there no. 3). A Bodhisattva may pass through walls according to the Ga avy ha-s tra.

20 Od. 6.19—21.

21 Bultmann, History, pp. 234—35.

22 Od. 5.382—387; 11.6—9; 12.148—150; 15.292; Il. 1.479.

23 When the Coptic patriarch sends his breath in a bag to a newly elected patriarch of Ethiopia his act is a homerism, irrespective of John 20:22.

24 J. D. M. Derrett, ‘Peter and the Tabernacles’, Downside Review, 108, no. 370 (1990), pp. 37—48 = Studies in the New Testament, vol. 6 (1995), pp. 16—27

25 Test. Abr. B. 3:8—9 J. D. M. Derrett ‘Domine, tu mihi lavas pedes?’, Bibbia e Oriente 21, no 119 (1979), pp. 13—42 = Studies in the New Testament, vol. 2 (1982), pp. 130—60; A. J. Hultgren, ‘The Johannine Foot-washing (13.1—11) as a Symbol of Eschatological Hospitality’, NTS 28/4 (1982), pp. 529—46 at pp. 536—37.

26 James Moffatt, Introduction to the Literature of the New Testament (3rd edn; Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1921), p. 360 n.

27 As at Lucian, Dance, 4, 8, 13, 23; Philostratus, Life, 7.14. A number of such attributions: F. H. Colson, Philo, vol. 10 (London: Heinemann/Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962), p. 323.

28 In Letter I of St Basil (AD 357), §2 both types are illustrated. Od. 12.158 is cited in allusion, while Od. 4.483 is merely alluded to.

29 Philostratus, Life 8, 5; 8, 7. Apollonius, epist. 60. Marcus Aurelius 4.33, 5.31, 6.10, 10.34, 11.31, in each case without attribution. Many allusions indexed as Colson, Philo, vol. 10, pp. 487—88. See also at Colson ibid., vol. 9, p. 122. There is a good example at Philo, Embassy to Gaius XXII, §199 (Colson, vol. 10, p. 77). 2 Mac 9:12 may recall Il. 5.440—442 (C. H. Dodd, Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel, Cambridge: University Press, 1968), p. 326 (see also p. 519). Julian (AD 331—63) was a prolific citer of antiquity. He gives attributed quotations of Homer at Or. 2. 67C—D, 73D, 77C—D; Or. 3.105A—B, 115B Quotations occur at Or. 2.95C, 96B; Or. 3.113A, 114A, 122D. Mere allusions to Homer arise at Or 2.75D, 76D, 80B, 84D, 85B—C, and there are six examples in Or. 3. Henry Chadwick, ‘Envoi: on taking leave of antiquity’, at Boardman et al., ed. Oxford History (see, n. 4. above), pp. 806—28 at p. 820.

30 Friedrich Blass, Philology of the Gospels (London: Macmillan, 1895), p. 186 found the vocabulary of Acts 27:41 either obsolete or poetical. However, is vaus, in Longus, Daphnis & Chloe, 2.12—14, 35.3, 31 obsolete or poetical? James H. Moulton and George Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1930) do not accept Blass’s argument: see s.v. epikellō.

31 Ernst Haenchen, The Acts of the Apostles (Oxford: Blackwell, 1971, 1982), p. 708, n. 3.

32 Bultmann, History, p. 292, n. 2. It would stand as a homerism.

33 Act 4, scene 1, lines 211—214, a parody of 1 Corinthians 2:9. Abuse of scripture: H. Wharton, Anglia Sacra (London, 1691), vol. 1, p. 523.

34 J. D. M. Derrett, ‘Homer in India’, JRAS 3rd. ser., 2/1 (1992), pp. 47—57 followed by ‘Two more Homeric scenes in India’, Archiv Orientální 74/2 (2006), pp. 173—81. For the mythology involved see Robert Graves, The Greek Myths (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960), vol. 2, pp. 92, 93.

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