Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-167) and index.
Table of Contents
Tobit and the Odyssey /Dennis R. MacDonald --Tobit, Genesis, and the Odyssey: a complex web of intertextuality /George W.E. Nickelsburg --Homer in Greco-Roman education /Ronald F. Hock --Pagan traditions of intertextuality in the Roman world /Ellen Finkelpearl --Mimesis of classical ideals in the second Christian century /Gregory J. Riley --Towards tracing the Gospels' literary indebtedness to the Epistles /Thomas L. Brodie --Space, place, voice in the Acts of the martyrs and the Greek romance /Judith Perkins --Facing the Scriptures: Mimesis and intertextuality in the Acts of Philip /Franðcois Brown.