The Limits of Ancient Biography
Published on 12. December 2006
Book
Hardback
447 pages
978-1-905125-12-8 (ISBN)
Description
The genre of biography in the ancient world is interestingly diverse and permeable and deserves intensive study, bearing as it does on ideas of characterization and the individual. This volume considers both the form and the content of biography across the ancient world, and is particularly interested in the frontiers with other related genres, such as history. The papers range from the Old Testament to the Arab world, from the New Testament to the Lives of Saints, from the classic Greek and Roman biographers to less well known practitioners of the art.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Swansea
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
931 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-905125-12-8 (9781905125128)
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Brian McGing | Judith Mossman
The Limits of Ancient Biography
E-Book
12/2007
Classical Press of Wales
€117.99
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Persons
edited by Brian McGing and Judith Mossman
Content
Brian McGing (Trinity College, Dublin and Judith Mossman (University of Nottingham), Introduction; Andrew D. H. Mayes (Trinity College, Dublin), Biography in the Ancient World: the Story of the Rise of David; Elizabeth Irwin (Columbia University), The Biographies of Poets: the Case of Solon; Richard A. Burridge (King's College, London), Reading the Gospels as Biography: Mark Edwards (Christ Church, Oxford), Gospel and Genre: Some Reservations; Sean Freyne (Trinity College, Dublin), Mark's Gospel and Ancient Biography; Justin Taylor (+cole biblique et archUologue fran