Genesis 37 and 39 in the Early Syriac Tradition /
The Syriac reception of the story of Joseph offers an unprecedented glimpse into late antique Syriac literary culture. The story inspired a diverse body of texts, written in prose, narrative poetry, dialogue poetry, and metrical homilies, including the greatest narrative poem written in Syriac. Thes...
Main Author:
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2023.
Series:
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2023.
Monographs of the Peshitta Institute ;
20.
Subjects:
Online Access: Login to view Source
Tags: Add Tag
Call Number: BS1235.52
- Preliminary Material /
- Kristian S. Heal
- Copyright Page /
- Kristian S. Heal
- Preface Pursuing Joseph in the Syriac Tradition /
- Kristian S. Heal
- Acknowledgements /
- Kristian S. Heal
- Abbreviations /
- Kristian S. Heal
- Introduction Rewriting the Bible in the Early Syriac Tradition /
- Kristian S. Heal
- Chapter 1 A Survey of the Sources /
- Kristian S. Heal
- Chapter 2 Joseph as a Type of Christ /
- Kristian S. Heal
- Chapter 3 Exemplarity and the Problem of Favouritism (Gen. 37:3-4) /
- Kristian S. Heal
- Chapter 4 Imagining Monstrosity (Gen. 37:5-28) /
- Kristian S. Heal
- Chapter 5 Mother, Merchants, and the Market Place (Gen. 37:29-36) /
- Kristian S. Heal
- Chapter 6 Making a Syriac Woman Sinful (Gen. 39) /
- Kristian S. Heal
- Chapter 7 Scripting Seduction (Gen. 39:7-10) /
- Kristian S. Heal
- Chapter 8 Entrapment and Betrayal (Gen. 39:11-20) /
- Kristian S. Heal
- Conclusion Promise and Betrayal /
- Kristian S. Heal
- Bibliography /
- Kristian S. Heal
- Indexes /
- Kristian S. Heal.