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Profiling Jewish Literature in Antiquity - An Inventory, from Second Temple Texts to the Talmuds (Hardcover)
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Profiling Jewish Literature in Antiquity - An Inventory, from Second Temple Texts to the Talmuds (Hardcover)
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This book introduces a new system for describing non-biblical
ancient Jewish literature. It arises from a fresh empirical
investigation into the literary structures of many anonymous and
pseudepigraphic sources, including Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha of
the Old Testament, the larger Dead Sea Scrolls, Midrash, and the
Talmuds. A comprehensive framework of several hundred literary
features, based on modern literary studies and text linguistics,
allows describing the variety of important text types which
characterize ancient Judaism without recourse to vague and
superficial genre terms. The features proposed cover all aspects of
the ancient Jewish texts, including the self-presentation,
perspective, and knowledge horizon assumed by the text; any poetic
constitution, narration, thematic discourse, or commentary format;
common small forms and small-scale relationships governing
neighbouring parts; compilations; dominant subject matter; and
similarities to the canonical books of the Hebrew Bible. By
treating works of diverse genres and periods by the same conceptual
grid, the new framework breaks down artificial barriers to
interdisciplinary research and prepares the ground for new
large-scale comparative studies. The book introduces and presents
the new framework, explains and illustrates every descriptive
category with reference to specific ancient Jewish texts, and
provides sample profiles of Jubilees, the Temple Scroll, Mishnah,
and Genesis Rabbah. The books publication is accompanied by a
public online Database of hundreds of further Profiles
(literarydatabase.humanities.manchester.ac.uk). This project was
made possible through the support of the Arts and Humanities
Research Council.
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