Status Updates From Christianity and the Transf...

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.

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.

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.