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 Approaches in the Exegesis of Ancient Texts, Heidelberg, July 10-13, 2006
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 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"? -- Narratology and the Classics: The Proof of th...
| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 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"? -- Narratology and the Classics: The Proof of the Pudding . . . -- 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 -- 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 -- Fictions and Formulations: -- Are Vocation Texts Fictional? On Hesiod's Helicon Experience -- Rereading Biblical Poetry -- From Aristotle to Bakhtin -- Where Is Isaiah in Isaiah? -- Job 28 and the Climax in Chapters 29-31: Crisis and Identity -- Modeling the Future by Reconstructing the Past -- Samuel's "Farewell Speech": Theme and Variation in 1 Samuel 12, Josephus, and Pseudo-Philo -- The Exile -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (386 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-57506-621-9 1-57506-190-2 978-1-57506-190-0 |
