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Title Ancient fiction : the matrix of early Christian and Jewish narrative / edited by Jo-Ann A. Brant, Charles W. Hedrick, and Chris Shea
Published Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 372 pages)
Series Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 32
Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ; no. 32.
Contents The educational curriculum in Chariton's Callirhoe / Ronald F. Hock -- Imitating imitation : Vergil, Homer, and Acts 10:1-11:18 / Chris Shea -- Die Entführung 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-344) and indexes
Notes English
Print version record
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
RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Quotations.
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., 1956-
Hedrick, Charles W
Shea, Chris, 1949-
LC no. 2005013285
ISBN 1429411007
9781429411004
1589833074
9781589833074
9781589831667
1589831667