Overcoming Dichotomies : Parables, Fables, and Similes in the Graeco-Roman World

Weitere Verfasser: Oegema, Albertina, 1989- , [HerausgeberIn]
Pater, Jonathan, 1983- , [HerausgeberIn]
Stoutjesdijk, Martijn, 1989- , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2022.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (xv, 508 pages).
Schriftenreihe: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament
ISBN: 9783161611582
3161611586
DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-161158-2
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Online-Zugang: open access
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Beyond the Parable-Fable Dichotomy: An Introduction to the Volume / Albertina Oegema/Martijn Stoutjesdijk
  • Parables in the New Testament and Rabbinic Literature between Simile and Fable: A status quaestionis / Jonathan Pater
  • Fabulous Style: Learning to Compose Fables in the Progymnasmata / Jeremy B. Lefkowitz
  • "Look at Heracles!" The Role of Similes and Exempla in Epictetus's Philosophical Teaching / Gerard J. Boter
  • Animal Similes in Roman Imperial Epic in Their Literary, Cultural, and Political Contexts / Annemarie Ambühl
  • The Fables according to Babrius and the New Testament Parables / Ruben Zimmermann
  • Fables in Philo of Alexandria: λόγος, μ ῦθος, and παραβολή / Sean A. Adams
  • Cognitive Blending Theory and the Mashal of the Forest and the Sea in 4 Ezra 4:13-17: The Boundedness of Human Knowledge / Stephen Llewelyn/Lydia Gore-Jones
  • From the Lion to the Snake, from the Wolf to the Bear: Rescue and Punishment in Classical Fables and Rabbinic Meshalim / Lieve Teugels
  • Folk Narrative Poetics of Late Antique Parables and Fables: The Rabbis' Double Vision / Galit Hasan-Rokem
  • Folktale Images in the Midrashic Context: Fable Motifs in Leviticus Rabbah 4 / Lorena Miralles Macia
  • Finding a Treasure: The Treasure Motif in Jewish, Christian, and Graeco-Roman Narratives in the Context of Rabbinic Halakhah and Roman Law / Catherine Hezser
  • How to Interpret Parables in Light of the Fable: Lessons from the Promythium and Epimythium / Justin D. Strong
  • Fables, Parables and Slaves: Epictetus, Aesop and the Gospels in Conversation with North American Slave Narratives / Mary Ann Beavis
  • Parabolic Stories in the Gospel of Thomas and the Aesopic Tradition: Some Reflections on Reading Practices and Literary Traditions in the Second and Third Century / Konrad Schwarz
  • "You Ought to Observe Hounds When They Are Hunting Hares": Examples and Similes about Animals in the Apophthegmata Patrum / Ingvild S. Gilhus
  • Fables, Proverbs, Parables, Allegories: Ancient Border-Crossing Lore / Peter J. Tomson.