Contents
Preface
List of Abbreviations
1. Genesis in Late Antique Poetry: Introduction | Andrew Faulkner, Cillian O’Hogan, and Jeffrey Wickes
2. Angelic Lust and Mighty Giants: Gregory of Nazianzus and Genesis 6:1–4 | Christos Simelidis
3. Furor and Divine Judgment in Avitus’s De Spiritalis Historiae Gestis 1–2 | Tyler Flatt
4. The Daughter of Ham Speaks: Noah’s Curse in the Poetry of Narsai | Erin Galgay Walsh
5. The Bodmer Aqedah Poem | Andrew Faulkner
6. Abraham as Epic Exemplar in Late Latin Poetry | Cillian O’Hogan
7. The Good Christian: A Classical Samaritan Circumcision Poem | Laura S. Lieber
8. “You Have Broken Me, Cain”: The Piety of Sorrow in Jacob’s Poems on Cain and Abel | Jeffrey Wickes
9. An Epithalamium for Abraham | Tzvi Novick
Works Cited
Contributors
Index