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The Jewish Novel in the Ancient World

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by Professor Of Biblical Studies Lawrence M Wills (episcopal Divintity School Cambridge Ma)

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      Professor Of Biblical Studies Lawrence M Wills (episcopal Divintity School Cambridge Ma)

    • Book Format

      Paperback / softback

    • Publisher

      Wipf & Stock Publishers

    • Published

      March 2015

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    Lawrence M. Wills here traces the literary evolution of popular Jewish narratives written during the period 200 BCE-100 CE. In many ways, these narratives were similar to Greek and Roman novels of the same era, as well as to popular novels of indigenous peoples within the Roman Empire. Yet, as a group, they demonstrated a variety of novelistic innovations: the inclusion of adventurous episodes, passages of description and of dialogue, concern with psychological motivation, and the introduction of female characters. Wills focuses on five novels: Greek Esther, Greek Daniel, Judith, Tobit, and Joseph and Aseneth. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical works, he delineates the techniques and motifs of the Jewish novel, shows how the genre both initiated and distanced itself from nonfictional prose such as historical and philosophical writing, discusses its relation to Greco-Roman romance, and describes the social conditions governing its emergence and reception. Wills also places the novels in historical context, situating them between the Hebrew Bible, on the one hand, and subsequent developments in Jewish and Christian literature on the other. Wills sees the Jewish novel as a popular form of writing that provided amusement for an expanding audience of Jewish entrepreneurs, merchants, and bureaucrats. In an important sense, he maintains, it was a product of the ""novelistic impulse"" the impulse to transfer oral stories to a written medium to reach a more literate audience. Lawrence M. Wills is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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    • Author

      Professor Of Biblical Studies Lawrence M Wills (episcopal Divintity School Cambridge Ma)

    • Book Format

      Paperback / softback

    • Publisher

      Wipf & Stock Publishers

    • Published

      March 2015

    • Weight

      400g

    • Dimensions

      150 x 227 x 18 mm

    • ISBN

      9781625648037

    • ISBN-10

      1625648030

    • Eden Code

      4940740

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    • Author/Creator: Professor Of Biblical Studies Lawrence M Wills (episcopal Divintity School Cambridge Ma)

    • ISBN: 9781625648037

    • Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers

    • Release Date: March 2015

    • Weight: 400g

    • Dimensions: 150 x 227 x 18 mm

    • Eden Code: 4940740

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