Tendentious hagiographies
Subtitle: Jewish propagandist fiction BCE
By: Michael Chyutin
Series: Library of Second Temple studies -- 77; T & T Clark library of biblical studies; Library of Second Temple studies -- 77.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Publisher: T & T Clark
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780567194060
Subjects: Jewish hagiography; Bible; Criticism, interpretation; History and criticism; Apocryphal books; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [312]-322) and index.
Table of contents: title: When Jonah mocked Isaiah; title: Ahiqar, the sage from Elephantine; title: Mordecai and Esther : the heads of the Persian diaspora; title: Daniel in the court of the Gentile king; title: Tobiah the Therapeute; title: When Ezra and Nehemiah lusted for Susanna; title: The Moabite convert Ruth returns to Zion; title: Judith's glory outshines Judah's; title: Exagoge : an exodus to Heliopolis; title: Joseph and Aseneth, the lovers from Heliopolis; title: Literary characteristics of the works examined.