Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity
Subtitle: Third Maccabees in Its Cultural Context (Hellenistic Culture and Society)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 9, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780520233072
Subjects: Books of the New Testament; Jewish studies; Judaism - General; History - General History; To 1500; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Jews; History: World; Identity; History and criticism; Ancient - General; Biblical Studies - Apocrypha; History / Ancient / General; Third Book of Maccabees; Bible - Apocrypha; 586 B.C.-70 A.D; Historical fiction; History
First sentence: Scholarship in recent years has tended increasingly to lump a large number of quasi-fictional Jewish-and, indeed, non-Jewish-texts into the vague category "romance" or "novel."