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 /
"Encountering an ancient text not only as a historical source but also as a literary artifact entails an important paradigm shift, which in recent years has taken place in classical and Oriental philology. Biblical scholars, Egyptologists, and classical philologists have been pioneers in supple...
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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 Boerner-Klein
- The powers of a lost subject: reinventing a poet's identity in Catullus's Carmen / Melanie Moeller
- 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 Samuel 12, Josephus, and pseudo-Philo / Joachim Vette
- The exile: Biblical ideology and its postmodern ideological interpretation / Adele Berlin.