This volume brings together for the first time all of the ancient Jewish novels and fragments of novels. Written at about the same time as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, but before the period of Rabbinic Judaism, these texts reveal the ambiguities and conflicts encountered by Jews in this period.
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The translations are accompanied by excellent introductions. International Review of Biblical Studies
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Lawrence W. Wills is at Episcopal Divintity School.
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Although the Hebrew Bible is full of good storytelling, there arose among Jews in the Greco-Roman period a new genre for retelling Bible stories and for composing new stories as well: the novel. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hair for bread, novelistic literature, committed many sins, seven virgins, prayer scene, ancient novel Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lord God, Greek Esther, New York, University of California Press, Third Maccabees, Hebrew Bible, Cornell University Press, Scholars Press, Hellenistic Diaspora, Greek Daniel, Hebrew Esther, Alexander Romance, Alexander the Great, Jordan River, Mighty One of God, Amaltheia's Horn, Brother Azariah, City of Refuge, Garden City, Harvard University Press, Mordecai the Jew, Queen Helena, All of the Israelites, Amy Jill, Ancient Greece New!
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Although the Hebrew Bible is full of good storytelling, there arose among Jews in the Greco-Roman period a new genre for retelling Bible stories and for composing new stories as well: the novel. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hair for bread, novelistic literature, committed many sins, seven virgins, prayer scene, ancient novel Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lord God, Greek Esther, New York, University of California Press, Third Maccabees, Hebrew Bible, Cornell University Press, Scholars Press, Hellenistic Diaspora, Greek Daniel, Hebrew Esther, Alexander Romance, Alexander the Great, Jordan River, Mighty One of God, Amaltheia's Horn, Brother Azariah, City of Refuge, Garden City, Harvard University Press, Mordecai the Jew, Queen Helena, All of the Israelites, Amy Jill, Ancient Greece New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Jewish Novel in the Ancient World (Myth and Poetics) by Lawrence Wills on 9 pages
- Collected Ancient Greek Novels by B. P. Reardon on page 3, page 20, and page 22
- Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan (323 BCE-117 CE) (S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies) by John M. G. Barclay on page 161, page 171, and page 196
- The Search for the Ancient Novel by Professor James Tatum on page 9, and page 22
- HIST & ROMANCE GRAECO ORIENTAL (Ancient Greek Literature) by Braun on page 21, and page 171
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- Plots Of Epiphany: Prison-escape In Acts Of The Apostles. (Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Fur Die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft Und Die Kunde Der Alteren Kirche) by John B. Weaver on page 182, and Back Matter
- Dating Acts by Richard I. Pervo in Back Matter
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