Johnson, Sara Raup
Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity

Third Maccabees in Its Cultural Context.

Sara Raup Johnson investigates the creation of historical fictions in a wide range of Hellenistic Jewish texts. Surveying so-called Jewish novels, including the Letter of Aristeas, 2 Maccabees, Esther, Daniel, Judith, Tobit, Josephus's account of Alexander's visit to Jerusalem and of the Tobiads, Artapanus, and Joseph and Aseneth, she demonstrates that the use of historical fiction in these texts does not constitute a uniform genre. Instead it cuts across all boundaries of language, provenance, genre, and even purpose. XIX,253 Seiten, gebunden (Hellenistic Culture and Society; Vol. 43/The Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature/University of California Press 2004) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly rubbed