Ilaria Ramelli/Judith Perkins:
Introduction: The Role of Religion in Shaping Narrative Forms
Part 1: Ancient Jewish Narrative
Lawrence M. Wills:
The Differentiation of History and Novel: Controlling the Past, Playing with the Past -
Erich S. Gruen:
The Twisted Tales of Artapanus: Biblical Rewritings as Novelistic Narrative -
David Konstan:
The Testament of Abraham and Greek Romance
Part 2: Christian Gospels, Acts, Biographies, and Martyrdoms
Karen L. King:
Endings: The
Gospel of Mark
and the
Gospel of Judas
-
Laura Salah Nasrallah:
"Out of Love for Paul": History and Fiction and the Afterlife of the Apostle Paul -
Dennis R. MacDonald:
Jesus and Dionysian Polymorphism in the
Acts of John
-
Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta:
A Syriac Original for the
Acts of Thomas
? The Hypothesis of Syriac Priority Revisited -
Mark J. Edwards:
The Deferred Fulfilment of Prophecy in Early Christian Fiction -
Vincent Hunink:
Following Paul: The
Acts of Xanthippe
,
Polyxena
,
and Rebecca
as an Ancient Novel -
Richard I. Pervo:
Dare and Back: The Stories of Xanthippe and Polyxena
- Ilaria Ramelli
: The Addai-Abgar Narrative: Its Development through Literary Genres and Religious Agendas -
Kathryn Chew:
"On Fire with Desire" (p????µ??? p???): Passion and Conversion in the Ancient Greek Novels and Early Christian Female Virgin Martyr Accounts
Part 3: "Pagan" and Christian Narratives: Social Worlds and Philosophical Agendas
Judith Perkins:
Competing Voices in Imperial Fiction -
Svetla Slaveva-Griffin:
Argumentum ex Silentio
: Religion in Heliodorus'
Aethiopica
