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

Title
Profiling Jewish literature in antiquity [electronic resource] : 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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Additional Authors
  • Alexander, Philip S.
  • Bernasconi, Rocco.
  • Hayward, Robert, 1948-
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 459 pages)
Uniform Title
Profiling Jewish literature in antiquity (Online)
Alternative Title
Profiling Jewish literature in antiquity (Online)
Subject
Jewish literature > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-439) and indexes.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2013938322
OCLC
ssj0001166431
Author
Samely, Alexander.
Title
Profiling Jewish literature in antiquity [electronic resource] : an inventory, from Second Temple texts to the Talmuds / Alexander Samely ; in collaboration with Philip Alexander, Rocco Bernasconi, Robert Hayward.
Imprint
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-439) and indexes.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Alexander, Philip S.
Bernasconi, Rocco.
Hayward, Robert, 1948-
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