Literary Construction of Identity in the Ancient World : : Proceedings of the Conference Literary Fiction and the Construction of Identity in Ancient Literatures: Options and Limits of Modern Literary Approach / / ed. by Hanna Liss, Manfred Oeming.

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• MitwirkendeR: Aschkenasy, Nehama,; Assmann, Jan,; Berlin, Adele,; Börner-Klein, Dagmar,; Eisen, Ute E.,; Fokkelman, Jan,; Hardmeier, Christof,; Jong, Irene J. F. de,; Kloss, Gerrit,; Kraemer, David,; Landy, Francis,; Liss, Hanna,; Möller, Melanie,; Polak, Frank H.,; Porter, Barbara N.,; Utzschneider, Helmut,; Vette, Joachim,
• HerausgeberIn: Liss, Hanna,; Oeming, Manfred,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

Encountering an ancient text not only as a historical source but also as a literary artifact entails an important paradigm shift, which in recent years has taken place in classical and Oriental philology. Biblical scholars, Egyptologists, and classical philologists have been pioneers in supplementin...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Part 1 Thinking of Ancient Texts as Literature
• Memory, Narration, Identity: Exodus as a Political Myth
• Narrative Poetics and Hebrew Narrative: A Survey
• Is There a Universal Genre of "Drama"? Conjectures on the Basis of "Dramatic" Texts in Old Testament Prophecy, Attic Tragedy, and Egyptian Cult Plays
• Narratology and the Classics: The Proof of the Pudding . . .
• Part 2 The Identity of Authors and Readers
• Ancient Writers, Modern Readers, and King Ashurnasirpal's Political Problems: An Exploration of the Possibility of Reading Ancient Texts
• The Achilles Heel of Reader-Response Criticism and the Concept of Reading Hermeneutics of Caution
• Tell Me Who I Am: Reading the Alphabet of Ben Sira
• The Powers of a Lost Subject: Reinventing a Poet's Identity in Catullus's Carmen 8
• Part 3 Fiction and Fact
• Forms of Talk in Hebrew Biblical Narrative: Negotiations, Interaction, and Sociocultural Context
• Of Mice and Men and Blood: The Laws of Ritual Purity in the Hebrew Bible
• Fiction and Imagination in Early Christian Literature The Acts of the Apostles as a Test Case
• Fictions and Formulations: The Talmud and the Construction of Jewish Identity
• Are Vocation Texts Fictional? On Hesiod's Helicon Experience
• Part 4 Rereading Biblical Poetry
• From Aristotle to Bakhtin: The Comedic and the Carnivalesque in a Biblical Tale
• Where Is Isaiah in Isaiah?
• Job 28 and the Climax in Chapters 29-31: Crisis and Identity
• Part 5 Modeling the Future by Reconstructing the Past
• Samuel's "Farewell Speech": Theme and Variation in 1 Samuel 12, Josephus, and Pseudo-Philo
• The Exile Biblical Ideology and Its Postmodern Ideological Interpretation
• Index of Authors
• Index of Scripture