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
7 - Elisha, Disaster, and Extended Exemplarity in De Excidio
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 7 analyzes the relatively few passages in De Excidio in which the figure of the Old Testament prophet Elisha shows up, passages that tend to tell much longer stories in which this biblical hero is involved than is true of other Bible figures in De Excidio. The chapter argues that this phenomenon, which I call “extended exemplarity,” also has parallels in ancient Roman literature, and suggests particular interests of the author, as well as exposing specific potentialities of exempla within historical literature generally.
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- Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late AntiquityThe Historiography, Exemplarity, and Anti-Judaism of Pseudo-Hegesippus, pp. 219 - 240Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022