Historical fictions and Hellenistic Jewish identity Third Maccabees in its cultural context / [electronic resource] :
Sara Raup Johnson.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
- xix, 253 p.
- Hellenistic culture and society ; 43 .
- Hellenistic culture and society ; 43. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Historical fictions and Jewish self-fashioning. Introduction -- Jews at court -- Josephus -- Artapanus -- Joseph and Aseneth -- Conclusion -- Third Maccabees, a case study. Introduction -- Chapter 1:5 : date of composition -- Chapter 2:6 : Third Maccabees in its literary context -- Chapter 3:7 : authorship, audience and Jewish identity -- Chapter 4:8 : historicity and historical ambivalence.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Third Book of Maccabees--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D. Jews--Identity--History--To 1500. Historical fiction--History and criticism.