Ancient fiction : the matrix of early Christian and Jewish narrative / / edited by Jo-Ann A. Brant, Charles W. Hedrick, and Chris Shea.

• Superior document: Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 32
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Brant, Jo-Ann A., 1956-; Hedrick, Charles W.; Shea, Chris, 1949-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ; no. 32.
• Physical Description: xvii, 372 p.
• Other title: The educational curriculum in Chariton's Callirhoe /; Imitating imitation : Vergil, Homer, and Acts 10:1-11:18 /; Die Entfuhrung in das Serail : Aspasia : a female Aesop? /; Novel and mystery : discourse, myth, and society /; Midrash as fiction and midrash as history : what did the rabbis mean? /; Mimesis and dramatic art in Ezekiel : the tragedians' exagoge /; Daniel 1-6 : a biblical story-collection /; 3 Maccabees : an anti-Dionysian polemic /; Third Maccabees : historical fictions and the shaping of Jewish identity in the Hellenistic period /; Humor and paradox in the characterization of Abraham in the Testament of Abraham /; Resurrection and social perspectives in the apocryphal Acts of Peter and Acts of John /; The breasts of Hecuba and those of the daughters of Jerusalem : Luke's transvaluation of a famous Iliadic scene /; The choral crowds in the tragedy according to St. Matthew /; The summaries of Acts 2, 4, and 5 and utopian literary traditions /; A biography of a motif : the empty tomb in the Gospels, the Greek novels, and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / Andy Reimer.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-344) and indexes.
• ISBN: 1589831667 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Jo-Ann A. Brant, Charles W. Hedrick, and Chris Shea.