Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 284 pages) : color illustrations |
Contents |
In the second degree: ancient Jewish paratextual literature in the context of Graeco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern literature / Armin Lange -- pt. 1. Ancient Judaism. Hypertextuality and the "Parabiblical" Dead Sea Scrolls / George J. Brooke -- The Book of Jubilees as paratextual literature / Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten -- pt. 2. Graeco-Roman world. Trojan Palimpsests: the relation of Greek tragedy to the Homeric epics / Annemarie Ambühl -- The Homeric epics as palimpsests / Georg Danek -- pt. 3. Ancient Egypt and the ancient Near East. From ritual to text to intertext: a new look on the dreams in Ludlul bēl nēmeqi / Beate Pongratz-Leisten -- Priestly texts, recensions, rewritings and paratexts in the late Egyptian period / Sydney H. Aufrère -- pt. 4. Late ancient and medieval paratextual literature. Rabbinic paratexts: the case of Midrash Lamentations Rabba / Philip S. Alexander -- Some considerations on Enoch/Metatron in the Jewish mystical tradition / Felicia Waldman -- Three Latin paratexts from late antiquity and the early Middle Ages ("Sulpicia," "Seneca"-"Paulus," Carmen Avale) / Kurt Smolak -- Paratextual literature in early Christian art (Acta Pauli et Theclae) / Renate J. Pillinger -- Paratextual literature in action: historical apocalypses with the names of Daniel and Isaiah in Byzantine and old Bulgarian tradition (11th-13th centuries) / Anissava L. Miltenova |
Summary |
To better understand the phenomenon of literature in the second degree - in Jewish and Biblical studies often characterized as parabiblical or rewritten Bible - the current volume applies the theories of Gerard Genette to ancient and medieval literature from various cultures |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Comparative literature -- Classical and medieval
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Comparative literature -- Medieval and classical
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Paratext.
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Middle Eastern literature -- History and criticism
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Apocryphal books -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literature, Ancient -- History and criticism
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism
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Collective memory and literature.
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Intertextuality.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Apocryphal books
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Collective memory and literature
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Intertextuality
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Literature, Ancient
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Literature, Medieval
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Middle Eastern literature
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Paratext
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Rabbinical literature
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Alexander, Philip S.
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Lange, Armin, 1961-
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Pillinger, Renate.
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ISBN |
9789004194199 |
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9004194193 |
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128294889X |
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9781282948891 |
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