Research Catalog

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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Details

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