Reading and teaching ancient fiction: Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman narratives
"The essays in this volume explore facets of ongoing research into the interplay of history, fiction, and narrative in ancient Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian texts. Particular attention is given to the way in which ancient authors in a variety of genre and cultural settings employ a range o...
| Summary: | "The essays in this volume explore facets of ongoing research into the interplay of history, fiction, and narrative in ancient Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian texts. Particular attention is given to the way in which ancient authors in a variety of genre and cultural settings employ a range of narrative strategies to reflect on pressing contemporary issues, shape community identity, or provide moral and educational guidance for their readers. This volume, the third in a series of volumes of collected papers emerging from the work of the "Ancient Fictions and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative" section of the Society for Biblical Literature since its formation in 1992, is the first to highlight the growing importance of strategies to integrate the fruits of this research into the university classroom and beyond" -- Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Early Christian Narrative -- Desiring Women -- Madly in Love -- Trophy Wives of Christ -- Unsettling Heroes -- Narrative Pathology or Strategy for Making Present and Authorization? -- Part 2: Jews, Greeks, Romans, and Others -- âAnd Also to the Jews in Their Scriptâ -- History Told by Losers -- According to the Brothers -- A Tale of Two Moseses -- Are Weeping and Falling Down Funny? -- Grotesque and Strange Tales of the Beyond -- Part 3: Pedagogies Ancient and Modern -- Origen and Hypatia -- Teaching Fiction, Teaching Acts -- Signature Pedagogies for Ancient Fiction? -- Teaching Mimesis as a Criterion for Textual Criticism -- A New Subjectivity? -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Ancient Sources Index -- Modern Authors Index -- Subject Index |
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| ISBN: | 0884142604 |