Overcoming dichotomies: parables, fables, and similes in the Graeco-Roman world
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 quaest...
| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 3161611586 |