Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: The Role of Religion in Shaping Narrative Forms
Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Ilaria Ramelli and Judith Perkins: The Role of Religion in Shaping Narrative Forms -- Bibliography -- Part 1: Ancient Jewish Narrative -- Lawrence M. Wills: The Differentiation of History and Novel: Controlling the Past, Playing with t...
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| Language: | English |
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Tübingen
Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG
2015
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Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament (348)
Year: 2015 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Early Christian and Jewish narrative] (2019) (Lafontaine, Xavier)
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series/Journal: | Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament
348 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Classical antiquity
/ Early Judaism
/ Church
/ Literature
/ Narrativity
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Electronic books B Religion and literature |
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Erscheint auch als: Ramelli, Ilaria: Early Christian and Jewish Narrative : The Role of Religion in Shaping Narrative Forms. - Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck,c2015. - 9783161520334 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Ilaria Ramelli and Judith Perkins: The Role of Religion in Shaping Narrative Forms -- Bibliography -- Part 1: Ancient Jewish Narrative -- Lawrence M. Wills: The Differentiation of History and Novel: Controlling the Past, Playing with the Past -- Episcopal Divinity School -- History Writing and the Colonial Margins -- But Will Our Categories Hold? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Erich S. Gruen: The Twisted Tales of Artapanus: Biblical Rewritings as Novelistic Narrative -- Bibliography -- David Konstan: The Testament of Abraham and Greek Romance -- Bibliography -- Part 2: Christian Gospels, Acts, Biographies, and Martyrdoms -- Karen L. King: Endings: The Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Judas -- The Gospel of Judas -- Foreshadowing -- Synecdoche -- Suspended Endings -- Readers Become Authors and Characters -- Conversion and Correction -- Endings and the End -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Laura Salah Nasrallah: "Out of Love for Paul": History and Fiction and the Afterlife of the Apostle Paul -- I. The Case of the Letters of Paul and Seneca -- II. Possible Histories -- III. On History -- Lucian, Naumachiai, and More -- Other Historical Possibilities -- IV. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Dennis R. MacDonald: Jesus and Dionysian Polymorphism in the Acts of John -- Bibliography -- Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta: A Syriac Original for the Acts of Thomas? The Hypothesis of Syriac Priority Revisited -- The Hypothesis of the Syriac Priority Revisited -- Alleged Metric Traces in the Syriac -- Alleged Syrianisms -- Vocabulary: Personal Names and Toponyms of Oriental Origin -- Reasons to Reconsider the Syriac Origin of the Text -- Textual Transmission of ATh -- Alleged Oriental Influences on the Text -- Conceptual World of the ATh -- General Worldview of the ATh Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Ilaria Ramelli and Judith Perkins: The Role of Religion in Shaping Narrative Forms -- Bibliography -- Part 1: Ancient Jewish Narrative -- Lawrence M. Wills: The Differentiation of History and Novel: Controlling the Past, Playing with the Past -- Episcopal Divinity School -- History Writing and the Colonial Margins -- But Will Our Categories Hold? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Erich S. Gruen: The Twisted Tales of Artapanus: Biblical Rewritings as Novelistic Narrative -- Bibliography -- David Konstan: The Testament of Abraham and Greek Romance -- Bibliography -- Part 2: Christian Gospels, Acts, Biographies, and Martyrdoms -- Karen L. King: Endings: The Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Judas -- The Gospel of Judas -- Foreshadowing -- Synecdoche -- Suspended Endings -- Readers Become Authors and Characters -- Conversion and Correction -- Endings and the End -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Laura Salah Nasrallah: "Out of Love for Paul": History and Fiction and the Afterlife of the Apostle Paul -- I. The Case of the Letters of Paul and Seneca -- II. Possible Histories -- III. On History -- Lucian, Naumachiai, and More -- Other Historical Possibilities -- IV. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Dennis R. MacDonald: Jesus and Dionysian Polymorphism in the Acts of John -- Bibliography -- Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta: A Syriac Original for the Acts of Thomas? The Hypothesis of Syriac Priority Revisited -- The Hypothesis of the Syriac Priority Revisited -- Alleged Metric Traces in the Syriac -- Alleged Syrianisms -- Vocabulary: Personal Names and Toponyms of Oriental Origin -- Reasons to Reconsider the Syriac Origin of the Text -- Textual Transmission of ATh -- Alleged Oriental Influences on the Text -- Conceptual World of the ATh -- General Worldview of the ATh. 7. History Again: Procopius' Lack of Religious Agendas Determines a Different Narrative Shape -- 8. Conclusions: The Role of Religion in Shaping Narrative Forms -- Bibliography -- Kathryn Chew: "On Fire with Desire" (πυρουμένη πόθῳ): Passion and Conversion in the Ancient Greek Novels and Early Christian Female Virgin Martyr Accounts -- Heroines and Martyrs: Passion and Conversion -- Passion and Conversion in the Early Ancient Greek Novels -- Passion and Conversion in the Early Christian Female Virgin Martyr Accounts -- Passion and Conversion in the Later Ancient Greek Novels -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Part 3: "Pagan" and Christian Narratives: Social Worlds and Philosophical Agendas -- Judith Perkins: Competing Voices in Imperial Fiction -- Bibliography -- Svetla Slaveva-Griffin: Argumentum ex Silentio: Religion in Heliodorus' Aethiopica -- History and Allegory: "Sometimes even a lie can be good, if it helps those who speak it without harming those to whom it is spoken." (Aeth. I.26.6) -- Religion and the "Breathing Image" of a Goddess -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- List of Contributors -- Index Locorum -- Name Index -- Subject Index |
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| ISBN: | 3161536185 |