Description |
viii, 373 pages ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 0512-1604 ; 348 |
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Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament ; 348.
0512-1604
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Contents |
Introduction : the role of religion in shaping narrative forms / Ilaria Ramelli and Judith Perkins -- Part 1: Ancient Jewish narrative. The differentiation of history and novel: controlling the past, playing with the past / Lawrence M. Wills ; The twisted tales of Artapanus: biblical rewritings as novelistic narrative / Erich S. Gruen ; The Testament of Abraham and Greek romance / David Konstan -- Part 2: Christian gospels, acts, biographies, and martyrdoms. Endings: the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Judas / Karen L. King ; "Out of love for Paul": history and fiction and the afterlife of the Apostle Paul / Laura Salah Nasrallah ; Jesus and Dionysian polymorphism in the Acts of John / Dennis R. MacDonald ; A Syriac original for the Acts of Thomas?: the hypothesis of Syriac priority revisted / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta ; The deferred fulfilment of prophecy in early Christian fiction / Mark J. Edwards ; Following Paul: the Acts of Xanthippe, Polyxena, and Rebecca as an ancient novel / Vincent Hunink ; Dare and back: the stories of Xanthippe and Polyxena / Richard I. Pervo ; The Addai-Abgar narrative: its development through literary genres and religious agendas / Ilaria L.E. Ramelli ; "On fire with desire" [Purouménē pothō]: passion and conversion in the ancient Greek novels and early Christian female virgin martyr accounts / Kathryn Chew -- Part 3: "Pagan" and Christian narratives: social worlds and philosophical agendas. Competing voices in imperial fiction / Judith Perkins ; Argumentum ex Silentio: religion in Heliodorus' Aethiopica / Svetla Slaveva-Griffin. |
Subject |
Religious literature -- Influence -- History and criticism.
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Christian literature, Early -- Influence -- History and criticism.
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Jewish literature -- Influence -- History and criticism.
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Religion and literature.
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Added Author |
Ramelli, Ilaria, 1973- editor.
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Perkins, Judith, 1944- editor.
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Standard No. |
9783161520334 |
ISBN |
9783161520334 (hd. bd.) |
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3161520335 (hd. bd.) |
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