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Title Overcoming dichotomies : parables, fables, and similes in the Graeco-Roman world / edited by Albertina Oegema, Jonathan Pater, Martijn Stoutjesdijk
Published Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (525 pages)
Series Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 0512-1604 ; 483
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament ; 483.
Summary "This volume aims to broaden our understanding of the related genres of parables, fables, and similes in the Graeco-Roman world. These genres, which make use of narrative analogy, appear in early Christian and ancient Jewish literatures and in various Graeco-Roman sources. However, despite the fact that these texts were part of the wider cultural context of Graeco-Roman antiquity, they have not yet been thoroughly studied in relation to each other. The present volume brings together contributions on a range of Graeco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian sources, so as to contribute to the study of parables, fables, and similes across disciplinary boundaries. The contributions highlight the fluid boundaries between these different genres, but also demonstrate how their adoption and adaption in different literary works give expression to the distinct identities of the composers."-- Publisher, inside front flap of dust jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013751
Bible. New Testament fast
Subject Parables.
Fables.
Simile.
Literary form -- History -- To 1500
parables.
fables.
Fables
Literary form
Parables
Simile
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Oegema, Albertina, 1989- editor.
Pater, Jonathan, 1983- editor.
Stoutjesdijk, Martijn, 1989- editor.
ISBN 9783161611582
3161611586