Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Samely, Alexander

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Alexander, Philip S.
• Bernasconi, Rocco
• Hayward, Robert, 1948-

Description

459 p.

Summary

This text 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.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• Jewish literature > History and criticism
• Judaism > Sacred books

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

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

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Introduction: a new framework for literary description -- II. The inventory -- III. 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 -- IV. Sample profiles. Jubilees -- Temple Scroll -- Mishnah -- Genesis Rabbah.

ISBN

• 9780199684328 (hbk.)
• 0199684324 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 858005005
• SCSB-12482968

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library