عنوان

Fictive Scheintod and Christian Resurrection

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LA126383

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Fictive Scheintod and Christian Resurrection

General Material Designation

[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Judith Perkins

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

In his chapter titled 'Resurrection' in Fiction as History, Glen Bowersock examines examples of 'apparent death' (Scheintod) in Graeco-Roman narrative fictions. He concludes his analysis by questioning 'whether the extraordinary growth in fictional writing, and its characteristic and concomitant fascination with resurrection' might be 'some kind of reflection of the remarkable stories that were coming out of Palestine in the middle of the first century A.D.' In this essay I will offer that rather than seeing a relation of influence between fictive prose narratives and Christian discourse (especially Christian bodily resurrection discourse) of the early centuries C.E., these sets of texts should be recognised as different manifestations of an attempt to address the same problem, that of negotiating notions of cultural identity in the matrix of early Roman imperialism. That these texts share similar motifs and themes - gruesome and graphic descriptions of torture, dismemberment, cannibalism and death - results not necessarily from influence, but that they converge around the same problem, drawing from a common cultural environment in the same historical context. In his chapter titled 'Resurrection' in Fiction as History, Glen Bowersock examines examples of 'apparent death' (Scheintod) in Graeco-Roman narrative fictions. He concludes his analysis by questioning 'whether the extraordinary growth in fictional writing, and its characteristic and concomitant fascination with resurrection' might be 'some kind of reflection of the remarkable stories that were coming out of Palestine in the middle of the first century A.D.' In this essay I will offer that rather than seeing a relation of influence between fictive prose narratives and Christian discourse (especially Christian bodily resurrection discourse) of the early centuries C.E., these sets of texts should be recognised as different manifestations of an attempt to address the same problem, that of negotiating notions of cultural identity in the matrix of early Roman imperialism. That these texts share similar motifs and themes - gruesome and graphic descriptions of torture, dismemberment, cannibalism and death - results not necessarily from influence, but that they converge around the same problem, drawing from a common cultural environment in the same historical context.

Date of Publication

2006

Physical description

396-418

Title

Religion and Theology

Volume Number

13/3-4

International Standard Serial Number

1574-3012

Judith Perkins

Call Number

10.1163/157430106779024671

Electronic name

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[Article]

275578

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