Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative : Fictional Intersections, The
Classical fiction Classical literature BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Criticism, interpretation, etc sähkökirjat
Barkhuis
2013
EISBN 9789491431524
Cover; 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 NovelJoseph 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.
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 countries offer twelve essays on Christian fictions or fictionalized texts and one essay on Aseneth. All the papers were originally presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel in Lisbon Portugal in 2008. The papers emphasize historical contextualization and comparative methodologie.
B: The Jewish NovelJoseph 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.
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 countries offer twelve essays on Christian fictions or fictionalized texts and one essay on Aseneth. All the papers were originally presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel in Lisbon Portugal in 2008. The papers emphasize historical contextualization and comparative methodologie.
