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" Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity : "
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BL
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994861
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b749231
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Johnson, Sara Raup.
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Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity : : Third Maccabees in Its Cultural Context.
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, 2005.
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Hellenistic culture and society ;; 43
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1 online resource (281 pages)
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0520233077
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: 0520928431
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: 1282356399
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: 1597346551
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: 9780520233072
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: 9780520928435
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: 9781282356399
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: 9781597346559
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity; 1 Jews at Court; 2 Josephus; 3 Patriarchal Fictions; Part II: Third Maccabees: A Case Study; 4 Date, Literary Context, Authorship, and Audience; 5 Historicity and Historical Ambivalence; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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In this thoughtful and penetrating study, Sara Raup Johnson investigates the creation of historical fictions in a wide range of Hellenistic Jewish texts. Surveying so-called Jewish novels, including the Letter of Aristeas, 2 Maccabees, Esther, Daniel, Judith, Tobit, Josephus's account of Alexander's visit to Jerusalem and of the Tobiads, Artapanus, and Joseph and Aseneth, she demonstrates that the use of historical fiction in these texts does not constitute a uniform genre. Instead it cuts across all boundaries of language, provenance, genre, and even purpose. Johnson argues that each author us.
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Historical fiction-- History and criticism.
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Jews-- Identity-- History-- To 1500.
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Historical fiction.
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Jews-- Identity.
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Judaism.
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Philosophy Religion.
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RELIGION-- Antiquities Archaeology.
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RELIGION-- Biblical Studies-- Bible Study Guides.
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Religion.
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Third Book of Maccabees-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Third Book of Maccabees.
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229.75229/.75
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BS1825.52 .J64 2004eb
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