Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-344) and indexes
The educational curriculum in Chariton's Callirhoe - Ronald F. Hock -- - Imitating imitation : Vergil, Homer, and Acts 10:1-11:18 - Chris Shea -- - Die Entführung in das Serail : Aspasia : a female Aesop? - Richard I. Pervo -- - Novel and mystery : discourse, myth, and society - Gerhard van den Heever -- - Midrash as fiction and midrash as history : what did the rabbis mean? - Chaim Milikowsky -- - Mimesis and dramatic art in Ezekiel : the tragedians' exagoge - Jo-Ann A. Brant -- - Daniel 1-6 : a biblical story-collection - Tawny L. Holm -- - 3 Maccabees : an anti-Dionysian polemic - Noah Hacham -- - Third Maccabees : historical fictions and the shaping of Jewish identity in the Hellenistic period - Sara R. Johnson -- - Humor and paradox in the characterization of Abraham in the Testament of Abraham - Jared W. Ludlow -- - Resurrection and social perspectives in the apocryphal Acts of Peter and Acts of John - Judith B. Perkins -- - The breasts of Hecuba and those of the daughters of Jerusalem : Luke's transvaluation of a famous Iliadic scene - Dennis R. MacDonand -- - The choral crowds in the tragedy according to St. Matthew - J.R.C. Cousland -- - The summaries of Acts 2, 4, and 5 and utopian literary traditions - Ruben Rene Dupertuis -- - A biography of a motif : the empty tomb in the Gospels, the Greek novels, and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / Andy Reimer