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Ancient fiction : the matrix of early Christian and Jewish narrative

Title
Ancient fiction : the matrix of early Christian and Jewish narrative / edited by Jo-Ann A. Brant, Charles W. Hedrick, and Chris Shea.
Publication
Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Brant, Jo-Ann A., 1956-
  • Hedrick, Charles W.
  • Shea, Chris, 1949-
Description
xvii, 372 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 32
Uniform Title
Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ; no. 32.
Subject
  • Bible. > Criticism, Narrative
  • Narration in the Bible > Comparative studies
  • Greek literature, Hellenistic > History and criticism
  • Greek literature, Hellenistic > Jewish authors > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-344) and indexes.
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.
Call Number
*PDB 06-1721
ISBN
1589831667 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2005013285
  • 9781589831667
OCLC
60373447
Title
Ancient fiction : the matrix of early Christian and Jewish narrative / edited by Jo-Ann A. Brant, Charles W. Hedrick, and Chris Shea.
Imprint
Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2005.
Series
Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 32
Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ; no. 32.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-344) and indexes.
Local Note
Ania R. Hoptman Memorial Fund for Jewish Literature.
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Added Author
Brant, Jo-Ann A., 1956-
Hedrick, Charles W.
Shea, Chris, 1949-
Other Standard Identifier
9781589831667
Research Call Number
*PDB 06-1721
JFE 16-5894
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