Ancient fiction
Subtitle: the matrix of early Christian and Jewish narrative
By: edited by Jo-Ann A. Brant, Charles W. Hedrick, and Chris Shea.
Contributors: Brant, Jo-Ann A., 1956-; Hedrick, Charles W.; Shea, Chris, 1949-
Series: Society of Biblical Literature Symposium series ;; no. 32; Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ;; no. 32.
Publisher: Brill; Brill Academic Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9789004137684
Subjects: Bible. N.T. -- Criticism, Narrative.; Narration in the Bible -- Comparative studies.; Greek literature, Hellenistic -- History and criticism.; Greek literature, Hellenistic -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
Genres: Comparative studies.
Table of contents: title: The educational curriculum in Chariton's Callirhoe / Ronald F. Hock; title: Imitating imitation : Vergil, Homer, and Acts 10:1-11:18 / Chris Shea; title: Die Entführung in das Serail : Aspasia : a female Aesop? / Richard I. Pervo; title: Novel and mystery : discourse, myth, and society / Gerhard van den Heever; title: Midrash as fiction and midrash as history : what did the rabbis mean? / Chaim Milikowsky; title: Mimesis and dramatic art in Ezekiel : the tragedians' exagoge / Jo-Ann A. Brant; title: Daniel 1-6 : a biblical story-collection / Tawny L. Holm; title: 3 Maccabees : an anti-Dionysian polemic / Noah Hacham; title: Third Maccabees : historical fictions and the shaping of Jewish identity in the Hellenistic period / Sara R. Johnson; title: Humor and paradox in the characterization of Abraham in the Testament of Abraham / Jared W. Ludlow; title: Resurrection and social perspectives in the apocryphal Acts of Peter and Acts of John / Judith B. Perkins; title: The breasts of Hecuba and those of the daughters of Jerusalem : Luke's transvaluation of a famous Iliadic scene / Dennis R. MacDonand; title: The choral crowds in the tragedy according to St. Matthew / J.R.C. Cousland; title: The summaries of Acts 2, 4, and 5 and utopian literary traditions / Ruben Rene Dupertuis; title: A biography of a motif : the empty tomb in the Gospels, the Greek novels, and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / Andy Reimer.