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Author Shea, Chris

Title Ancient Fiction : the Matrix of Early Christian and Jewish Narrative
Published Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (392 pages)
Contents ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1: Ancient Greco-Roman Narrative""; ""The Educational Curriculum in Chariton�s Callirhoe""; ""Imitating Imitation: Vergil, Homer, and Acts 10:1-11:18""; ""Die Entf�hrung in das Serail: Aspasia: A Female Aesop?""; ""Novel and Mystery: Discourse, Myth, and Society""; ""Part 2: Jewish Narrative""; ""Midrash as Fiction and Midrash as History: What Did the Rabbis Mean?""; ""Mimesis and Dramatic Art in Ezekiel the Tragedian�s Exagoge""; ""Daniel 1-6: A Biblical Story-Collection""; ""3 Maccabees: An Anti-Dionysian Polemic""
""Third Maccabees: Historical Fictions and the Shaping of Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Period""""Humor and Paradox in the Characterization of Abraham in the Testament of Abraham""; ""Part 3: Early Christian Narrative""; ""Resurrection and Social Perspectives in the Apocryphal Acts of Peter and Acts of John""; ""The Breasts of Hecuba and Those of the Daughters of Jerusalem""; ""The Choral Crowds in the Tragedy According to St. Matthew""; ""The Summaries of Acts 2, 4, and 5 and Plato's Republic""
""A Biography of a Motif: The Empty Tomb in the Gospels, the Greek Novels, and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet""""Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index of Ancient Sources""; ""Index of Modern Authors""; ""Index of Subjects""
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SUBJECT Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, Narrative
Bible. New Testament fast
Subject Narration in the Bible -- Comparative studies
Greek literature, Hellenistic -- History and criticism
Greek literature, Hellenistic -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism
Greek literature, Hellenistic
Greek literature, Hellenistic -- Jewish authors
Narration in the Bible
Genre/Form Comparative studies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Brant, Jo-Ann A
Hedrick, Charles W
ISBN 9781589833074
1589833074