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9780195151428

Ancient Jewish Novels An Anthology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195151428

  • ISBN10:

    0195151429

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-10-03
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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 Jewsin this period.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. v
A Note on Texts and Translationsp. ix
Ancient Jewish Novelsp. 2
Introductionp. 3
General Bibliographyp. 22
Jewish Novelsp. 26
Greek Estherp. 27
Suggestions for Further Readingp. 50
Susanna and Bel and the Serpent (greek Daniel)p. 51
Suggestions for Further Readingp. 61
Tobitp. 62
Suggestions for Further Readingp. 88
Judithp. 89
Suggestions for Further Readingp. 120
The Marriage and Conversion of Asenethp. 121
Suggestions for Further Readingp. 162
Jewish Historical Novelsp. 164
Artapanus, on Mosesp. 165
Suggestions for Further Readingp. 172
Third Maccabeesp. 174
Suggestions for Further Readingp. 197
The Tobiad Romancep. 198
Suggestions for Further Readingp. 212
The Royal Family of Adiabenep. 213
Suggestions for Further Readingp. 225
Jewish Novelistic Testamentsp. 228
Testament of Josephp. 229
Suggestions for Further Readingp. 241
Testament of Jobp. 242
Suggestions for Further Readingp. 268
Testament of Abrahamp. 269
Suggestions for Further Readingp. 293
Indexp. 295
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