id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt zs25x63730x Cana Short Sympathy and Empathy for a Rival Lover: A Comparative Study of Chariton's Callirhoe and the Acts of Andrew 2020 .txt text/plain 309 10 36 This thesis advances comparative scholarship on the ancient novels by demonstrating that similarities between the Greek novels and Apocryphal Acts are not limited to motifs and themes, but extend to narrative strategy. Furthermore, this study demonstrates the usefulness of the distinction between sympathy and empathy in reader-response approaches to the ancient novels and Christian Apocryphal Acts. cache/zs25x63730x.txt txt/zs25x63730x.txt