John has written a new article (find it posted under Other Papers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The story of Achilles and other heroes in Homer\u2019s Iliad resonates with the story of David in 1 and 2 Samuel, and so does the first-person story of Haim Sabato in\u00a0Adjusting Sights<\/em>. All concern involvement in war and the relationship of warriors with God or the gods. They offer different but overlapping and mutually-illuminating perspectives on God or the gods and on polytheism or monotheism or mono-Yahwism, on the involvement of God or the gods in earthly events and on humanity\u2019s role in events, on the relationship between that divine involvement and human decision-making, on the nature of the human person, on relationships between humanity and God or the gods, on war, and on death and afterlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John has written a new article (find it posted under Other Papers: The story of Achilles and other heroes in Homer\u2019s Iliad resonates with the story of David in 1 and 2 Samuel, and so does the first-person story of Haim Sabato in\u00a0Adjusting Sights. All concern involvement in war and the relationship of warriors with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,70,73,72],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1-and-2-samuel","tag-david","tag-iliad","tag-sabato"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5VlqB-oE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnandkathleenshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnandkathleenshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnandkathleenshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnandkathleenshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnandkathleenshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnandkathleenshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/johnandkathleenshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnandkathleenshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnandkathleenshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnandkathleenshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}