Reading and teaching ancient fiction :  Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman narratives / 
editores Sara Johnson ; [y otros dos]. 
 - xv, 320 páginas ;  23 centímetros. 
 - Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series ;   Number 11 .
<br/><br/>Índice: páginas 295-320. 
<br/><br/>Women: Xanthippe, Polyxena, Rebcca -- Madly in love: the motif of lovesickness in the Acts of Andrew -- Trophy wives of Christ: tropes of seduction and conquest in the Apocryphal Acts -- Unsettling heroes: reading identity politics in Mark's Gospel and ancient fiction -- Narrative pathology or strategy for making present and authorization? Metalepsis in the Gospels -- "And also to the Jews in their script": power and writing in the scroll of Esther -- History told by losers: Dictys and Dares on the Trojan War -- According to the brothers: first-person narration in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs -- A tale of two Moseses: Philo's On the life of Moses and Josephus's Jewish Antiquities 2-4 in light of the Roman Discourse of Exemplarity -- Are weeping and falling down funny? Exaggeration in ancient novelistic texts -- Grotesque and strange tales of the beyond: truth, fiction, and social discourse -- Origen and Hypatia: parallel portraits of Platonist educators -- Teaching fiction, teaching acts: introducing the linguistic turn the the biblical studies classroom -- Signature pedagogies for ancient fiction? Thecla as a test case -- Teaching mimesis as a criterion for textual criticism: cases from the Testament of Abraham and the Gospel of Nicodemus -- A new subjectivity? Teaching erōs [Greek word] through the Greek novel and early Christian texts. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1783685336 9781783685301 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Apocryphal books<br/>Civilization, Ancient, in literature<br/>Classical literature
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>880.09  / R31