Ancient Fiction: The Matrix of Early Christian And Jewish Narrative (original) (raw)

"Ancient Fiction," published by the "Ancient Fiction and Early Jewish and Christian Narrative Section" at the Society of Biblical Literature, as part of its symposium series, is a collection of fifteen independent papers on Hellenistic, Jewish and Christian narratives in late antiquity. Th e book is divided into three sections. Th e first, "Ancient Graeco-Roman Narrative," is limited, except for one paper on Vergil, to the Greek Novel of late antiquity; the second, "Jewish Narrative," concentrates on Helleno-Jewish compositions written in Greek (3 Maccabees is merited with two separate papers), which the exception of two papers: one on the book of Daniel and the other on the rabbinic composition Seder ʾOlam. Th e papers of the