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The ancient novel and early Christian and Jewish narrative : fictional intersections /

This innovative collection explores the vital role played by fictional narratives in Christian and Jewish self-fashioning in the early Roman imperial period. Employing a diversity of approaches, including cultural studies, feminist, philological, and narratological, expert scholars from six countrie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Futre Pinheiro, M. (Marília) (Editor ), Perkins, Judith, 1944- (Editor ), Pervo, Richard I. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Griego Antiguo
Latín
Publicado: Groningen : Barkhuis Publishing & Groningen University Library, 2012.
Colección:Ancient narrative. Supplementum ; 16.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgements; Prologue; Introduction; A: The Apocryphal Acts; Why Thekla Does Not See Paul: Visual Perception and the Displacement of Erōs in the Acts of Paul and Thekla; (Un)Happily Ever After: Literary and Religious Tensions in the Endings of the Apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla; The Two Ephesian Matrons: Drusiana's Story in the Acts of John as a Possible Christian Response to Milesian Narrative; Virginity at Stake: Greek Novels, Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, and the Dionysiaca of Nonnus Panopolitanu; Wild Kingdom: Animal Episodes in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles; B: The Jewish Novel; Joseph and Aseneth in Greek literary history: The Case of the "First Novel"; C: Ancient Novel and Early Christian Fictions:Intersections
  • Jesus Was No Sophist: Education in Early Christian Fiction; Reading the Protevangelium Jacobi as an Ancient Novel; Charicleia the Martyr: Heliodorus and Early Christian Narrative; Marriages Spoiled:The Deconstruction of Novel Discoursein Early Christian Novel Narratives; D: New Testament and Hagiography; We-Passages in Acts as Mission Narrative; Viri mirantur facilius quam imitantur: Passio Perpetuae in the Literature of the Ancient Church (Tertullian, acta martyrum, and Augustine); Telling What's Beyond the Known: The Epistolary Novel and the Afterlife of the Apostle Paul in the Pastoral Epistles; Abstracts; Contributors; Indices.