Overcoming dichotomies : parables, fables, and similes in the Graeco-Roman world / edited by Albertina Oegema, Jonathan Pater, Martijn Stoutjesdijk.
"This volume aims to broaden our understanding of the related genres of parables, fables, and similes in the Graeco-Roman world. These genres, which make use of narrative analogy, appear in early Christian and ancient Jewish literatures and in various Graeco-Roman sources. However, despite the...
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| Superior document: | Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 483 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (525 Seiten) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Albertina Oegema and Martijn Stoutjesdijk - Beyond the Parable-Fable Dichotomy: An Introduction to the Volume
- Jonathan Pater - Parables in the New Testament and Rabbinic Literature between Simile and Fable: A status quaestionis
- Greek and Roman Literature
- Jeremy B. Lefkowitz - Fabulous Style: Learning to Compose Fables in the Progymnasmata
- Gerard J. Boter - "Look at Heracles!" The Role of Similes and Exempla in Epictetus's Philosophical Teaching
- Annemarie Ambühl - Animal Similes in Roman Imperial Epic in Their Literary, Cultural, and Political Contexts
- Ruben Zimmermann - The Fables according to Babrius and the New Testament Parables
- Early Jewish and Rabbinic Literature
- Sean A. Adams - Fables in Philo of Alexandria: λόγος, μῦθος, and παραβολή
- Stephen Llewelyn and Lydia Gore-Jones - Cognitive Blending Theory and the Mashal of the Forest and the Sea in 4 Ezra 4:13-17: The Boundedness of Human Knowledge
- Lieve Teugels - From the Lion to the Snake, from the Wolf to the Bear: Rescue and Punishment in Classical Fables and Rabbinic Meshalim
- Galit Hasan-Rokem - The Rabbis' Double Vision: Folk Narrative Poetics of Late Antique Parables and Fables
- Lorena Miralles Maciá - Folktale Images in the Midrashic Context: Fable Motifs in Leviticus Rabbah 4
- New Testament and Early Christian Literature
- Catherine Hezser - Finding a Treasure: The Treasure Motif in Jewish, Christian, and Graeco-Roman Narratives in the Context of Rabbinic Halakhah and Roman Law
- Justin David Strong - How to Interpret Parables in Light of the Fable: Lessons from the Promythium and Epimythium
- Mary Ann Beavis - Fables, Parables and Slaves: Epictetus, Aesop and the Gospels in Conversation with North American Slave Narratives.
- Konrad Schwarz - Parabolic Stories in the Gospel of Thomas and the Aesopic Tradition: Some Reflections on Reading Practices and Literary Traditions in the Second and Third Century
- Ingvild S. Gilhus - "You Ought to Observe Hounds When They Are Hunting Hares": Examples and Similes about Animals in the Apophthegmata Patrum
- Diachronic Perspectives
- Peter J. Tomson - Fables, Proverbs, Parables, Allegories: Ancient Border-Crossing Lore
- List of Contributors
- Index of Ancient Sources
- Index of Modern Authors
- Index of Subjects.