Historical fictions and Hellenistic Jewish identity Third Maccabees in its cultural context /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2004.
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| Series: | Hellenistic culture and society ;
43 |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10074322 |
Table of Contents:
- Historical fictions and Jewish self-fashioning. Introduction
- Jews at court
- Josephus
- Artapanus
- Joseph and Aseneth
- Conclusion
- Third Maccabees, a case study. Introduction
- Chapter 1:5 : date of composition
- Chapter 2:6 : Third Maccabees in its literary context
- Chapter 3:7 : authorship, audience and Jewish identity
- Chapter 4:8 : historicity and historical ambivalence.