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Profiling Jewish literature in antiquity : an inventory, from Second Temple texts to the Talmuds

Title: Profiling Jewish literature in antiquity : an inventory, from Second Temple texts to the Talmuds / Alexander Samely ; in collaboration with Philip Alexander, Rocco Bernasconi, Robert Hayward.
Author: Samely, Alexander.
Publication: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Description

xvi, 459 pages; 24 cm

Subject

Jewish literature > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-439) and indexes.

Contents

Introduction: a new framework for literary description -- The inventory -- Commentary on the inventory. The self-presentation of the text as a verbal entity -- The perspective and knowledge horizon of the governing voice -- The poetic and rhetorical-communicative constitution of texts -- Narrative coherence and narrative aggregation -- Thematic coherence and thematic aggregation -- Meta-textual structuring of texts -- Correspondences and verbal overlap with other texts -- Small forms in the governing voice -- Small-scale coherence relationships -- The juxtaposition of part-texts in a compound -- Dominant subject matter and scholarly genre labels -- Sample profiles. Jubilees -- Temple Scroll -- Mishnah -- Genesis Rabbah.

Call Number

*PAV 14-107

ISBN

9780199684328 (hardcover)
0199684324 (hardcover)

LCCN

2013938322

OCLC

858005005

Author

Samely, Alexander.

Title

Profiling Jewish literature in antiquity : an inventory, from Second Temple texts to the Talmuds / Alexander Samely ; in collaboration with Philip Alexander, Rocco Bernasconi, Robert Hayward.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-439) and indexes.

Added Author

Alexander, Philip S.

Bernasconi, Rocco.

Hayward, Robert, 1948-

Research Call Number

*PAV 14-107

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