Authorial fictions and attributions in the ancient Mediterranean / edited by Chance E. Bonar and Julia D. Lindenlaub.

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English
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  • Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2024]
  • ©2024
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vi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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"The contributors to this volume explore the phenomena of authorship, attribution, and author function in literature produced in the ancient Mediterranean. Moving beyond traditional questions regarding forgery or authorial (in)authenticity, they analyze the roles that ascribed authorship plays in the production of textual networks, the construction of authoritative figures, and the history of literary culture and book culture. They include scholars whose work on authorship and attribution is mutually informative beyond disciplinary boundaries, particularly scholars of early Christianity, early Judaism, classics, and the ancient Near East." -- Provided by publisher
Notes
Originally presented at "Authorial Fictions and Attributions in the Ancient Mediterranean", a series of colloquia held via teleconference from September-December 2021, hosted by the Bible and Religions of the Ancient Near East Collective (BRANE).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction to Authorial Fictions and Attributions in the Ancient Mediterranean / Julia D. Lindenlaub and Chance E. Bonar-- The Epistle to the Laodiceans and the Art of Tradition / Robyn Faith Walsh
  • Authorial Fictions, Phoenician Paradigms, and the Reception of Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon in the Lives of Galaction and Episteme / Claire Jackson
  • Outside Bible Readers as an Author Character in Rabbinic Literature: Using Attribution to Preserve and Contain Subversive Positions / Rebecca Wollenberg
  • The Fictive Author and the Reading Community in the Apocryphon of James (NHC I,2) / Julia D. Lindenlaub
  • Writing Truth and Secrets: Authorship and the Legitimizing Role of Apocalyptic in Manichaeism / Nicholas Baker-Brian
  • Coauthorial Attribution and the Teachings of Silvanus (NHC VII,4) / Chance E. Bonar
  • Melito's Enoch: Anti-Judaism and the Transmission of the Pseudepigrapha / Elena Dugan
  • From Beyond the Grave: 'Ventriloquizing' the Enslaved and the Emancipated in Latin Verse Epitaphs / Emily Mitchell
  • Imagining Gospel Authorship: Anonymity, Collaboration, and Monography in a Pluriform Corpus / Jeremiah Coogan
  • Janus-Faced Authors: Production or Presentation? / Sophus Helle.
ISBN
  • 9783161617829 (paperback)
  • 3161617827
OCLC
1447091401
International Article Number
  • 9783161617829
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