In the second degree : paratextual literature in ancient Near Eastern and ancient Mediterranean culture and its reflections in medieval literature

In the second degree : paratextual literature in ancient Near Eastern and ancient Mediterranean culture and its reflections in medieval literature /

To better understand the phenomenon of literature in the second degree - in Jewish and Biblical studies often characterized as parabiblical or rewritten Bible - the current volume applies the theories of Gerard Genette to ancient and medieval literature from various cultures.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Alexander, Philip S., Lange, Armin, 1961-, Pillinger, Renate
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010
Subjects:
Comparative literature > Classical and medieval.
Comparative literature > Medieval and classical.
Paratext.
Middle Eastern literature > History and criticism.
Apocryphal books > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literature, Ancient > History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Rabbinical literature > History and criticism.
Collective memory and literature.
Intertextuality.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • In the second degree: ancient Jewish paratextual literature in the context of Graeco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern literature / Armin Lange
  • pt. 1. Ancient Judaism. Hypertextuality and the "Parabiblical" Dead Sea Scrolls / George J. Brooke
  • The Book of Jubilees as paratextual literature / Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten
  • pt. 2. Graeco-Roman world. Trojan Palimpsests: the relation of Greek tragedy to the Homeric epics / Annemarie Ambühl
  • The Homeric epics as palimpsests / Georg Danek
  • pt. 3. Ancient Egypt and the ancient Near East. From ritual to text to intertext: a new look on the dreams in Ludlul bēl nēmeqi / Beate Pongratz-Leisten
  • Priestly texts, recensions, rewritings and paratexts in the late Egyptian period / Sydney H. Aufrère
  • pt. 4. Late ancient and medieval paratextual literature. Rabbinic paratexts: the case of Midrash Lamentations Rabba / Philip S. Alexander
  • Some considerations on Enoch/Metatron in the Jewish mystical tradition / Felicia Waldman
  • Three Latin paratexts from late antiquity and the early Middle Ages ("Sulpicia," "Seneca"-"Paulus," Carmen Avale) / Kurt Smolak
  • Paratextual literature in early Christian art (Acta Pauli et Theclae) / Renate J. Pillinger
  • Paratextual literature in action: historical apocalypses with the names of Daniel and Isaiah in Byzantine and old Bulgarian tradition (11th-13th centuries) / Anissava L. Miltenova.

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