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Genesis in Late Antique Poetry (Hardcover)
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Genesis in Late Antique Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: CUA Studies in Early Christianity
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The biblical book of Genesis stands nearly without parallel in the
shared history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Because of its
abiding importance to late antique theology and practical life
across religious boundaries, it gave rise to a wide range of
literary responses. The essays in this book study an array of
Jewish and Christian responses to Genesis as they took shape in
specific literary forms-the unique genres of late antique poetry.
While late antique and early medieval Jews and Christians did not
always agree in their interpretations of Genesis, they participated
broadly in a shared culture of poetic production. Some of these
poetic genres paralleled one another simply as distinct examples of
metered speech, while others emerged in conversation and through
mutual influence. Though late antique poems developed in a variety
of languages and across religious boundaries, scholarly study of
late antique poetry has tended to isolate the phenomenon according
to language. As a corrective to this linguistic isolation, this
book initiates a comparative conversation around the Jewish and
Christian poetry that emerged in late antique Aramaic, Greek,
Hebrew, Latin, and Syriac. Tending equally to exegetical content
and literary form, the essays in this book sit at the intersection
of a variety of scholarly conversations-around the history of
biblical exegesis, the formation of late antique and early medieval
literature and literary culture, and the comparative study of
Judaism and Christianity.
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