Synopses & Reviews
This volume brings together for the first time all of the ancient Jewish novels and fragments of novels. Written at about the same time as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, but before the period of Rabbinic Judaism, these texts reveal the ambiguities and conflicts encountered by Jews in this period.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
Part I Jewish Novels
2. Greek Esther
3. Susanna and Bel and the Serpent (Greek Daniel)
4. Tobit
5. Judith
6. The Marriage and Conversion of Aseneth
Part II Jewish Historical Novels
7. Artapanus, on Moses
8. Third Maccabees
9. The Tobiad Romance
10. The Royal Family of Adiabene
Part III Jewish Novelistic Testaments
11. Testament of Joseph
12. Testament of Job
13. Testament of Abraham
Index