This innovative collection explores the vital role played by fictional narratives in Christian and Jewish self-fashioning in the early Roman imperial period. Employing a diversity of approaches, including cultural studies, feminist, philological, and narratological, expert scholars from six countries offer twelve essays on Christian fictions or fictionalized texts and one essay on Aseneth. All the papers were originally presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel in Lisbon Portugal in 2008. The papers emphasize historical contextualization and comparative methodologies and will appeal to all those interested in early Christianity, the Ancient novel, Roman imperial history, feminist studies, and canonization processes.

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Cover
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction
A: The Apocryphal Acts
Why Thekla Does Not See Paul: Visual Perception and the Displacement of Erōs in the Acts of Paul and Thekla
(Un)Happily Ever After: Literary and Religious Tensions in the Endings of the Apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla
The Two Ephesian Matrons: Drusiana’s Story in the Acts of John as a Possible Christian Response to Milesian Narrative
Virginity at Stake: Greek Novels, Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, and the Dionysiaca of Nonnus Panopolitanu
Wild Kingdom: Animal Episodes in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles
B: The Jewish Novel
Joseph and Aseneth in Greek literary history: The Case of the “First Novel”
C: Ancient Novel and Early Christian Fictions:Intersections
Jesus Was No Sophist: Education in Early Christian Fiction
Reading the Protevangelium Jacobi as an Ancient Novel
Charicleia the Martyr: Heliodorus and Early Christian Narrative
Marriages Spoiled:The Deconstruction of Novel Discoursein Early Christian Novel Narratives
D: New Testament and Hagiography
We-Passages in Acts as Mission Narrative
Viri mirantur facilius quam imitantur: Passio Perpetuae in the Literature of the Ancient Church (Tertullian, acta martyrum, and Augustine)
Telling What’s Beyond the Known: The Epistolary Novel and the Afterlife of the Apostle Paul in the Pastoral Epistles
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