Literary construction of identity in the ancient world

proceedings of a conference, literary fiction and the construction of identity in ancient literatures : options and limits of modern literary approaches in the exegesis of ancient texts, Heidelberg, July 10-13, 2006

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Literary construction of identity in the ancient world

proceedings of a conference, literary fiction and the construction of identity in ancient literatures : options and limits of modern literary approaches in the exegesis of ancient texts, Heidelberg, July 10-13, 2006

xiv, 370 p. ; 24 cm

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Eisenbrauns
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English
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370

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Table of Contents

Thinking of ancient texts as literature. Memory, narration, identity: Exodus as a political myth / Jan Assmann
Narrative poetics and Hebrew narrative: a survey / Joachim vette
Is there a universal genre of "drama"? conjectures on the basis of "dramatic" texts in Old Testament prophecy, Attic tragedy, and Egyptian cult plays / Helmut Utzschneider
Narratology and the Classics: the proof of the pudding
/ Irene J. F. de Jong
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 / Barbara N. Porter
The Achilles heel of reader-response criticism and the concept of reading hermeneutics of caution / Christof Hardmeier
Tell me who I am: reading the alphabet of Ben Sira / Dagmar Boerner-Klein
The powers of a lost subject: reinventing a poet's identity in Catullus's Carmen / Melanie Moeller
Fiction and fact. Forms of talk in Hebrew Biblical narrative: negotiations, interaction, and sociocultural context / Frank H. Polak
Of mice and men and blood: the laws of ritual purity in the Hebrew Bible / Hanna Liss
Fiction and imagination in early Christian literature: the acts of the Apostles as a test case / Ute E. Eisen
Fictions and formulations: the Talmud and the construction of Jewish identity / David Kraemer
Are vocation texts fictional? on Hesiod's Helicon experience / Geritt Kloss
Rereading Biblical poetry from Aristotle to Bakhtin: the comedic and the carnivalesque in a Biblical tale / Nehama Aschkenasy
Where is Isaiah in Isaiah? / Francis Landy
Job 28 and the climax in chapters 29-31: crisis and identity / Jan Fokkelman
Modeling the future by reconstructing the past. Samuel's "farewell speech": theme and variation in Samuel 12, Josephus, and pseudo-Philo / Joachim Vette
The exile: Biblical ideology and its postmodern ideological interpretation / Adele Berlin.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Winona Lake, Ind

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Dewey Decimal Class
880.09
Library of Congress
PN56.I42 L58 2010, PN56.I42L58 2010, PN56.I42 L58 2006

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Pagination
xiv, 370 p. ;
Number of pages
370

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Open Library
OL24478436M
Internet Archive
literaryconstruc0000lite
ISBN 13
9781575061900
LCCN
2010005674
OCLC/WorldCat
574907793

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