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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811551203321

Titolo

Ancient fiction : the matrix of early Christian and Jewish narrative / / edited by Jo-Ann A. Brant, Charles W. Hedrick, and Chris Shea

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Atlanta, : Society of Biblical Literature, c2005

ISBN

1-58983-307-4

1-4294-1100-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xvii, 372 p

Collana

Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; ; no. 32

Altri autori (Persone)

BrantJo-Ann A. <1956->

HedrickCharles W

SheaChris <1949->

Disciplina

220.6/6

Soggetti

Narration in the Bible

Greek literature, Hellenistic - History and criticism

Greek literature, Hellenistic - Jewish authors - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-344) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

The educational curriculum in Chariton's Callirhoe / Ronald F. Hock -- Imitating imitation : Vergil, Homer, and Acts 10:1-11:18 / Chris Shea -- Die Entfuhrung in das Serail : Aspasia : a female Aesop? / Richard I. Pervo -- Novel and mystery : discourse, myth, and society / Gerhard van den Heever -- Midrash as fiction and midrash as history : what did the rabbis mean? / Chaim Milikowsky -- Mimesis and dramatic art in Ezekiel : the tragedians' exagoge / Jo-Ann A. Brant -- Daniel 1-6 : a biblical story-collection / Tawny L. Holm -- 3 Maccabees : an anti-Dionysian polemic / Noah Hacham -- Third Maccabees : historical fictions and the shaping of Jewish identity in the Hellenistic period / Sara R. Johnson -- Humor and paradox in the characterization of Abraham in the Testament of Abraham / Jared W. Ludlow -- Resurrection and social perspectives in the apocryphal Acts of Peter and Acts of John / Judith B. Perkins -- The breasts of Hecuba and those of the daughters of Jerusalem : Luke's transvaluation of a famous Iliadic scene / Dennis R. MacDonand -- The choral crowds in the tragedy according to St. Matthew / J.R.C. Cousland -- The summaries of Acts 2, 4, and 5 and utopian literary traditions / Ruben Rene Dupertuis -- A



biography of a motif : the empty tomb in the Gospels, the Greek novels, and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / Andy Reimer.