Chiefly papers read at a conference in June 1998 at the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity at Claremont Graduate University. Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-167).
Contents:
Facing the Scriptures: Mimesis and intertextuality in the Acts of Philip / François Brown. Tobit, Genesis, and the Odyssey: a complex web of intertextuality / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Homer in Greco-Roman education / Ronald F. Hock -- Pagan traditions of intertextuality in the Roman world / Ellen Finkelpearl -- Mimesis of classical ideals in the second Christian century / Gregory J. Riley -- Towards tracing the Gospels' literary indebtedness to the Epistles / Thomas L. Brodie -- Space, place, voice in the Acts of the martyrs and the Greek romance / Judith Perkins -- Facing the Scriptures: Mimesis and intertextuality in the Acts of Philip / François Brown.
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