Preposterous poetics : the politics and aesthetics of form in late antiquity /

How does literary form change as Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape? What is the impact of literary tradition and the new pressures of religious thinking? Tracing a journey over the first millennium that includes works in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, this book changes our understandin...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Goldhill, Simon (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Series:	Greek culture in the Roman world.
Subjects:	Classical literature > History and criticism. Hebrew literature, Medieval > History and criticism. Christian literature, Early > History and criticism. Christianity > Influence. Judaism > Influence. Civilization, Classical.