Hospitality in Homer and Genesis 18-19

Diana Frenkel

doi:10.46553/tab.18.2021.p115-122

Authors

Diana Frenkel Universidad de Buenos Aires

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46553/tab.18.2021.p115-122

Keywords:

Hospitalidad, Homero, Abraham, Lot.

Abstract

The work proposes a reflection on the importance of hospitality in the Homeric texts and in the book of Genesis 18-19. From the examples analyzed in the Iliad and Odyssey it is concluded that the custom in question was central to the ancients, to the point of building iron ties between the host and the guest who continued in his descendants. The book of Genesis also offers examples in which the good reception of a foreigner is rewarded by God and the aggression to this one, severely punished.

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Author Biography

Diana Frenkel, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Doctora en Letras Clásicas por la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Es Profesora Adjunta Regular de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires y de la Universidad Católica Argentina. Ha participado en calidad de investigadora, codirectora y directora en varios proyectos UBACYT referidos a Aristófanes.

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