Literary construction of identity in the ancient world : proceedings of a 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 /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: "Literary Fiction and the Construction of Identity in Ancient Literatures" Heidelberg, Germany
Other Authors: Liss, Hanna, Oeming, Manfred
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Thinking of ancient texts as literature. Memory, narration, identity: Exodus as a political myth / Jan Assmann
  • Narrative poetics and Hebrew narrative: a survey / Joachim Vette
  • Is there a universal genre of "drama"? conjectures on the basis of "dramatic" texts in Old Testament prophecy, Attic tragedy, and Egyptian cult plays / Helmut Utzschneider
  • Narratology and the Classics: the proof of the pudding-- / Irene J. F. de Jong
  • 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 / Barbara N. Porter
  • The Achilles heel of reader-response criticism and the concept of reading hermeneutics of caution / Christof Hardmeier
  • Tell me who I am: reading the alphabet of Ben Sira / Dagmar Börner-Klein
  • The powers of a lost subject: reinventing a poet's identity in Catullus's Carmen 8 / Melanie Möller
  • Fiction and fact. Forms of talk in Hebrew Biblical narrative: negotiations, interaction, and sociocultural context / Frank H. Polak
  • Of mice and men and blood: the laws of ritual purity in the Hebrew Bible / Hanna Liss
  • Fiction and imagination in early Christian literature: the acts of the Apostles as a test case / Ute E. Eisen
  • Fictions and formulations: the Talmud and the construction of Jewish identity / David Kraemer
  • Are vocation texts fictional? on Hesiod's Helicon experience / Geritt Kloss
  • Rereading Biblical poetry. From Aristotle to Bakhtin: the comedic and the carnivalesque in a Biblical tale / Nehama Aschkenasy
  • Where is Isaiah in Isaiah? / Francis Landy
  • Job 28 and the climax in chapters 29-31: crisis and identity / Jan Fokkelman
  • Modeling the future by reconstructing the past. Samuel's "farewell speech": theme and variation in 1 Samuel 12, Josephus, and pseudo-Philo / Joachim Vette
  • The exile: Biblical ideology and its postmodern ideological interpretation / Adele Berlin.