Historical novels for NT culture
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Jul 10 07:20:42 EDT 2000
At 7:46 PM -0500 7/9/00, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>I would be interested in knowing of interesting historical novels that
>accurately and vividly portray New Testament culture, architecture, and
>politics. Do such novels exist?
There's the rub: "that accurately and vividly portray NT culture,
architecture, and politics." That's a TALL order indeed. The first thing
that came to my mind was the by-now classics of my childhood, Lloyd
Douglas' "The Robe" and "The Big Fisherman." There are, I think, quite a
few well-written and reasonably knowledgeable historical novels of the
Republican and early Imperial era of Roman history. Those interested might
follow the links at Mark Keith's site, INDEX RERUM CLASSICARUM: HISTORICAL
FICTION:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/9585/histfict.html
I note that the link suggested there for Lindsey Davis is dead, which is
unfortunate. She's written several historical mysteries featuring one M.
Didius Falco, a DELATOR (lit. "informer" here equated with "private eye")
that are both amusing and well-plotted and seem to me to be remarkably
well-informed about the Mediterranean World of their milieu, the era of
Titus and Vespasian, both of whom succeeded to imperial power following the
success of the taking of Jerusalem in the Jewish War of 66-70.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University
Summer: 1647 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu OR cwconrad at ioa.com
WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/
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