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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Greek culture in the Roman world.
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| Summary: | 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 understanding of late antiquity and how its literary productions make a significant contribution to the cultural changes that have shaped western Europe. |
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-285) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108494823 110849482X 9781108797023 1108797024 |