Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity

Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity

The Historiography, Exemplarity, and Anti-Judaism of Pseudo-Hegesippus

Bay, Carson

Cambridge University Press

11/2022

452

Dura

Inglês

9781009268561

15 a 20 dias

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1. On the destruction of Jerusalem: Christian, Classical, Biblical, Josephan; 2. Hebrew vs. Jew: identity and differentiation in De Excidio; 3. Abraham, ethnography, exemplarity, and oratory at De Excidio 5.41.2 and 5.53.1; 4. Exemplarity and national decline at De Excidio 5.2.1; 5. Jewish and Christian martyrdom at De Excidio 3.2 and 5.22; 6. King David as Christian-classical exemplum in Pseudo-Hegesippus; 7. Elisha, disaster, and extended exemplarity in De Excidio; 8. A classical world of Biblical Exempla: suicide and patriotism in De Excidio 3.16-17; 9. A Christian world of Hebrew Exempla: war and faith in De Excidio 5.15-16. 10. Conclusion.