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Ancient Fiction and Early Christian Narrative
Author | : Ronald F. Hock,J. Bradley Chance,Judith Perkins |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : UOM:39015046496546 |
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Classicists as well as Biblical scholars contribute to the annual conference sessions held since 1992, from which the 15 essays here have been selected and revised for publication. They focus mostly on Greek novels, but also other works of ancient fiction as they relate to the New Testament and to extra-canonical Christian narrative. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative Fictional Intersections
Author | : Marília Futre Pinheiro,Judith Perkins,Richard I. Pervo |
Publsiher | : Barkhuis |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2013-01-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789491431210 |
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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 methodologies and will appeal to all those interested in early Christianity, the Ancient novel, Roman imperial history, feminist studies, and canonization processes.
Ancient Fiction
Author | : Jo-Ann A. Brant,Charles W. Hedrick,Chris Shea |
Publsiher | : Society of Biblical Lit |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781589831667 |
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The essays in this volume examine the relationship between ancient fiction in the Greco-Roman world and early Jewish and Christian narratives. They consider how those narratives imitated or exploited conventions of fiction to produce forms of literature that expressed new ideas or shaped community identity within the shifting social and political climates of their own societies. Major authors and texts surveyed include Chariton, Shakespeare, Homer, Vergil, Plato, Matthew, Mark, Luke, Daniel, 3 Maccabees, the Testament of Abraham, rabbinic midrash, the Apocryphal Acts, Ezekiel the Tragedian, and the Sophist Aelian. This diverse collection reveals and examines prevalent issues and syntheses in the making: the pervasive use and subversive power of imitation, the distinction between fiction and history, and the use of history in the expression of identity.
Reading and Teaching Ancient Fiction
Author | : Sara R. Johnson,Rubén R. Dupertuis,Christine Shea |
Publsiher | : SBL Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2018-03-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780884142607 |
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The third volume of research on ancient fiction This volume includes essays presented in the Ancient Fiction and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative section of the Society of Biblical Literature. Contributors explore facets of ongoing research into the interplay of history, fiction, and narrative in ancient Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian texts. The essays examine the ways in which ancient authors in a variety of genre and cultural settings employed a range of narrative strategies to reflect on pressing contemporary issues, to shape community identity, or to provide moral and educational guidance for their readers. Not content merely to offer new insights, this volume also highlights strategies for integrating the fruits of this research into the university classroom and beyond. Features Insight into the latest developments in ancient Mediterranean narrative Exploration of how to use ancient texts to encourage students to examine assumptions about ancient gender and sexuality or to view familiar texts from a new perspective Close readings of classical authors as well as canonical and noncanonical Jewish and Christian texts
The Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative Fictional Intersections
Author | : Marília P. Futre Pinheiro,Judith Perkins,Richard Pervo |
Publsiher | : Barkhuis |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2013-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789491431524 |
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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 methodologies and will appeal to all those interested in early Christianity, the Ancient novel, Roman imperial history, feminist studies, and canonization processes.
The Narrative Self in Early Christianity
Author | : Janet E. Spittler |
Publsiher | : SBL Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2019-10-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780884143987 |
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Essays that explore early Christian texts and the broader world in which they were written This volume of twelve essays celebrates the contributions of classicist Judith Perkins to the study of early Christianity. Drawing on Perkins's insights related to apocryphal texts, representations of pain and suffering, and the creation of meaning, contributors explore the function of Christian narratives that depict pain and suffering, the motivations of the early Christians who composed these stories, and their continuing value to contemporary people. Contributors also examine how narratives work to create meaning in a religious context. These contributions address these issues from a variety of angles through a wide range of texts. Features: Introductions to and treatments of several largely unknown early Christian texts Essays by ten women and two men influenced or mentored by Judith Perkins Essays on the Deuterocanon, the New Testament, and early Christian relics
The Acts of Peter Gospel Literature and the Ancient Novel
Author | : Christine M. Thomas |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2003-03-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780195344141 |
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The Acts of Peter, one of the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles that detail the exploits of the key figures of early Christianity, provides a unique window into the formation of early Christian narrative. Like the Gospels, the Acts of Peter developed from disparate oral and written narrative from the first century. The apocryphal text, however, continued to develop into a number of re-castings, translations, abridgements, and expansions. The Acts of Peter present Christian narrative in an alternate universe, in which canonization did not halt the process of creative re-composition. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Thomas examines the sources and subsequent versions of the Acts, from the earliest traditions through the sixth-century Passions of the Apostles, arguing the importance of its "narrative fluidity": the existence of the work in several versions or multiforms. This feature, shared with the Jewish novels of Esther and Daniel, the Greek romance about Alexander the Great, and the Christian Gospels, allows these narratives to adapt to accommodate the changing historical circumstances of their audiences. In each new version, the audiences' defining conflicts were reflected in the text, echoing a historical consciousness more often identified with primary oral societies, in which the account of the past is a malleable script explaining the present. Although the genre most closely comparable to these works is the ancient novel, their serious historical intent separates them from the later, more self-consciously fictive novels, and maintains them within the realm of the earlier historical novels produced by ethnic subcultures within the Roman empire.
The Origins of Early Christian Literature
Author | : Robyn Faith Walsh |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2021-01-28 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 9781108835305 |
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The Synoptic gospels were written by elites educated in Greco-Roman literature, not exclusively by and for early Christian communities.