CONTENTS -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- In the Second Degree: Ancient Jewish Paratextual Literature in the Context of Graeco-Roman and Ancient Near Eastern Literature -- PART I ANCIENT JUDAISM -- Hypertextuality and the "Parabiblical" Dead Sea Scrolls -- The Book of Jubilees as Paratextual Literature -- PART II GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD -- Trojan Palimpsests: The Relation of Greek Tragedy to the Homeric Epics -- The Homeric Epics as Palimpsests -- PART III ANCIENT EGYPT AND THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST -- From Ritual to Text to Intertext: A New Look on the Dreams in Ludlul Bel Nemeqi -- Priestly Texts, Recensions, Rewritings and Paratexts in the Late Egyptian Period -- PART IV LATE ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PARATEXTUAL LITERATURE -- Rabbinic Paratexts: The Case of Midrash Lamentations Rabbah -- Some Considerations on Enoch/Metatron in the Jewish Mystical Tradition -- Three Latin Paratexts from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages ("Sulpicia," "Seneca"-"Paulus," Carmen Navale) -- Paratextual Literature in Early Christian Art (Acta Pauli et Theclae) -- Paratextual Literature in Action: Historical Apocalypses with the Names of Daniel and Isaiah in Byzantine and Old Bulgarian Tradition (11th-13th Centuries).