Forms of Attention: Time and Narrative in Ecphrasis -- When Size Matters: Erotics, the Epyllion, and Colluthus' Rape of Helen -- In the Beginning -- Preposterous Poetics and the Erotics of Death -- Strange Dogs: Joseph and Aseneth and The Dynamics of Transformation -- Life Forms: Biography and Rabbinical Writing -- Coda.
Summary:
"How does literary form change as Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape? What is the impact of literary tradition and the new pressures of religious thinking? Tracing a journey over the first millennium that includes works in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, this book changes our understanding of late antiquity and how its literary productions make a significant contribution to the cultural changes that have shaped western Europe"-- Provided by publisher.
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