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Ancient Jewish novels : [an anthology from the Greco-Roman period] / [edited and translated and with an introduction by Lawrence M. Wills].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Multiple languages
- Subjects (All):
- Greek fiction, Hellenistic--Jewish authors--Translations into English.
- Greek fiction, Hellenistic.
- Jews--History--To 70 A.D--Fiction.
- Jews.
- Apocryphal books (Old Testament)--Translations into English.
- Apocryphal books (Old Testament).
- Jewish religious fiction.
- History.
- Jewish authors.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- x, 298 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Milford, CT : Toby Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Ancient Greek and Hebrew.
- Summary:
- This volume brings together for the first time all of the ancient Jewish novels and fragments of novels. Written at about the same time as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, but before the period of Rabbinic Judaism, these texts reveal the ambiguities and conflicts encountered by Jews in this period.
- Notes:
- Subtitle from cover.
- ISBN:
- 1592641954
- 9781592641956
- OCLC:
- 156891311
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