Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity The Historiography, Exemplarity, and Anti-Judaism of Pseudo-Hegesippus
Book contents
- Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity
- Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 On the Destruction of Jerusalem
- 2 Hebrew versus Jew
- 3 Abraham, Ethnography, Exemplarity, and Oratory at De Excidio 5.41.2 and 5.53.1
- 4 Exemplarity and National Decline at De Excidio 5.2.1
- 5 Jewish and Christian Martyrdom at De Excidio 3.2 and 5.22
- 6 King David as Christian-Classical Exemplum in Pseudo-Hegesippus
- 7 Elisha, Disaster, and Extended Exemplarity in De Excidio
- 8 A Classical World of Biblical Exempla
- 9 A Christian World of Hebrew Exempla
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: Old Testament Exempla in De Excidio, A–Z
- Appendix 2: Pseudo-Hegesippus’ Sources
- Bibliography
- Source Index
- General Index
3 - Abraham, Ethnography, Exemplarity, and Oratory at De Excidio 5.41.2 and 5.53.1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2022
Book contents
- Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity
- Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 On the Destruction of Jerusalem
- 2 Hebrew versus Jew
- 3 Abraham, Ethnography, Exemplarity, and Oratory at De Excidio 5.41.2 and 5.53.1
- 4 Exemplarity and National Decline at De Excidio 5.2.1
- 5 Jewish and Christian Martyrdom at De Excidio 3.2 and 5.22
- 6 King David as Christian-Classical Exemplum in Pseudo-Hegesippus
- 7 Elisha, Disaster, and Extended Exemplarity in De Excidio
- 8 A Classical World of Biblical Exempla
- 9 A Christian World of Hebrew Exempla
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: Old Testament Exempla in De Excidio, A–Z
- Appendix 2: Pseudo-Hegesippus’ Sources
- Bibliography
- Source Index
- General Index
Summary
Chapter 3 explores how Pseudo-Hegesippus uses the figure of the patriarch Abraham, along with several other biblical heroes, to drive a variegated discourse of Jewish ethnography throughout De Excidio. By zeroing in on two passages where Abraham and other Bible figures are used to talk about “what the Jews are like” (i.e., ethnic stereotyping), Pseudo-Hegesippus shows himself familiar with ancient ethnographic conventions and uses ethnography to present various pictures of the Jewish national character in the mouths of both Roman and Jewish narrative characters.
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- Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late AntiquityThe Historiography, Exemplarity, and Anti-Judaism of Pseudo-Hegesippus, pp. 98 - 126Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022