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Overcoming Dichotomies: Parables, Fables, and Similes in the Graeco-Roman World

by Albertina Oegema, Jonathan Pater

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
  • 16.6 x 25 x 3.7 cm

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This volume aims to broaden our understanding of the related genres of parables, fables, and similes in the Graeco-Roman world. These genres, which make use of narrative analogy, appear in early Christian and ancient Jewish literatures and in various Graeco-Roman sources. However, despite the fact that these texts were part of the wider cultural context of Graeco-Roman antiquity, they have not yet been thoroughly studied in relation to each other. The present volume brings together contributions on a range of Graeco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian sources, so as to contribute to the study of parables, fables, and similes across disciplinary boundaries. The contributions highlight the fluid boundaries between these different genres, but also demonstrate how their adoption and adaption in different literary works give expression to the distinct identities of the composers.

  • Title

    Overcoming Dichotomies: Parables, Fables, and Similes in the Graeco-Roman World

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Mohr Siebeck

  • Published

    July 2022

  • Weight

    1308g

  • Dimensions

    16.6 x 25 x 3.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9783161611575

  • ISBN-10

    3161611578

  • Eden Code

    5671094

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