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The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity (Hardcover)
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The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity (Hardcover)
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The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed a world of early
Jewish writing larger than the Bible, from multiple versions of
biblical texts to "revealed" books not found in our canon. Despite
this diversity, the way we read Second Temple Jewish literature
remains constrained by two anachronistic categories: a theological
one, "Bible," and a bibliographic one, "book." The Literary
Imagination in Jewish Antiquity suggests ways of thinking about how
Jews understood their own literature before these categories had
emerged. Using familiar sources such as the Psalms, Ben Sira, and
Jubilees, Mroczek tells an unfamiliar story about sacred writing
not bound in a Bible. In many texts, we see an awareness of a vast
tradition of divine writing found in multiple locations only
partially revealed in available scribal collections. Ancient heroes
like David are not simply imagined as scriptural authors, but
multi-dimensional characters who come to be known as great writers
and honored as founders of growing textual traditions. Scribes
recognize the divine origin of texts like the Enoch literature and
other writings revealed to ancient patriarchs, which present
themselves not as derivative of material we now call biblical, but
prior to it. Sacred writing stretches back to the dawn of time, yet
new discoveries are always around the corner. While listening to
the way ancient writers describe their own literature-their own
metaphors and narratives about writing-this book also argues for
greater suppleness in our own scholarly imagination, no longer
bound by modern canonical and bibliographic assumptions.
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