Con los brazos abiertos (y el puño cerrado) : tipologías narrativas en IV Macabeos

Projection of mythical time has found a favorable way to develop itself by getting inside the group of the historical books of the Bible. In that scheme, hospitality takes a very important place. Specially, if we consider the fact that the people of Israel has been considered as a foreigner into the empires which immense exten- sions subjugate it. On the basis of this context, the moments when Hebrews openly fight with these empires will be significant. Then, we will analyze in this work the Fourth Book of Maccabees because it fictionalizes a historic period of strong and hard confrontation. We understand that into it both narrative procedure of historical circularity and the hospitality as a cultural topic are conjugated, to build with clear and unambiguous marks the text's central characters. That is why we will try to find features that can be typificated in an opposition scale [positive/negative]. Such graduation will allow to understand the relative importance that hospitality will have to clarify the final victory -moral and military- of the sons of God's army.