Ancient Jewish Novels: An Anthology
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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Ancient Jewish Novels: An Anthology
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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Ancient Jewish Novels: An Anthology

Ancient Jewish Novels: An Anthology

by Oxford University Press
Ancient Jewish Novels: An Anthology
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Ancient Jewish Novels: An Anthology

Ancient Jewish Novels: An Anthology

by Oxford University Press

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780195151428
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 10/03/2002
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Episcopal Divintity School, Cambridge MA

Table of Contents

Preface1. IntroductionPart I Jewish Novels2. Greek Esther3. Susanna and Bel and the Serpent (Greek Daniel)4. Tobit5. Judith6. The Marriage and Conversion of AsenethPart II Jewish Historical Novels7. Artapanus, on Moses8. Third Maccabees9. The Tobiad Romance10. The Royal Family of AdiabenePart III Jewish Novelistic Testaments11. Testament of Joseph12. Testament of Job13. Testament of AbrahamIndex
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