Literary construction of identity in the ancient world
Subtitle: proceedings of a conference, literary fiction and the construction of identity in ancient literatures : options and limits of modern literary approaches in the exegesis of ancient texts, Heidelberg, July 10-13, 2006
By: edited by Hanna Liss and Manfred Oeming
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Winona Lake, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781575061900
Description: xiv, 370 p. ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Thinking of ancient texts as literature. Memory, narration, identity: Exodus as a political myth / Jan Assmann; title: Narrative poetics and Hebrew narrative: a survey / Joachim vette; title: Is there a universal genre of "drama"? conjectures on the basis of "dramatic" texts in Old Testament prophecy, Attic tragedy, and Egyptian cult plays / Helmut Utzschneider; title: Narratology and the Classics: the proof of the pudding; title: / Irene J. F. de Jong; title: The identity of authors and readers. Ancient writers, modern readers, and King Ashurnasirpal's political problems: an exploration of the possibility of reading ancient texts / Barbara N. Porter; title: The Achilles heel of reader-response criticism and the concept of reading hermeneutics of caution /  Christof Hardmeier; title: Tell me who I am: reading the alphabet of Ben Sira / Dagmar Boerner-Klein; title: The powers of a lost subject: reinventing a poet's identity in Catullus's Carmen / Melanie Moeller; title: Fiction and fact. Forms of talk in Hebrew Biblical narrative: negotiations, interaction, and sociocultural context / Frank H. Polak; title: Of mice and men and blood: the laws of ritual purity in the Hebrew Bible / Hanna Liss; title: Fiction and imagination in early Christian literature: the acts of the Apostles as a test case / Ute E. Eisen; title: Fictions and formulations: the Talmud and the construction of Jewish identity / David Kraemer; title: Are vocation texts fictional? on Hesiod's Helicon experience / Geritt Kloss; title: Rereading Biblical poetry from Aristotle to Bakhtin: the comedic and the carnivalesque in a Biblical tale / Nehama Aschkenasy; title: Where is Isaiah in Isaiah? / Francis Landy; title: Job 28 and the climax in chapters 29-31: crisis and identity / Jan Fokkelman; title: Modeling the future by reconstructing the past. Samuel's "farewell speech": theme and variation in Samuel 12, Josephus, and pseudo-Philo / Joachim Vette; title: The exile: Biblical ideology and its postmodern ideological interpretation / Adele Berlin.