Performances of Ancient Jewish Letters by Miller, Marvin Lloyd;

From Elephantine to MMT

Series: Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements (JAJ.S); Volume 020, Part;

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Product details:

Publisher Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Date of Publication 16 September 2015
Number of Volumes gebunden

ISBN 9783525550939
Binding Hardback
No. of pages317 pages
Size 237x160x26 mm
Weight 664 g
Language English

Short description:

One of the first books to apply the approach of performance criticism to ancient Jewish letters.

Long description:

This ambitious and engaging book sets itself the task of combining a wide range of approaches to cast new light on the form and function of several ancient Jewish letters in a variety of languages. The focus of The Performance of Ancient Jewish Lettersis on applying a new emerging field of performance theory to texts and arguing that letters and other documents were not just read in silence, as is normal today, but were “performed,” especially when they were addressed to a community. A distinctive feature of this book consists of being one of the first to apply the approach of performance criticism to ancient Jewish letters. Previous treatments of ancient letters have not given enough consideration to their oral context; however, this book prompts the reader to “listen” sympathetically with the audience. The Performance focuses close attention on the ways in which the engagement of the audience during the performance of a text might be read from traces present in the text itself. This book invites the audience to hear a fresh reading of a family letter from Hermopolis, concerning ugly tunics and castor oil; festal letters, about issues surrounding the celebration of Passover, Purim and Hanukkah; a diaspora letter on how to live in a foreign land; and also an official letter concerning the building of the Jerusalem temple. These letters will help us understand a text from the Dead Sea Scrolls, namely, MMT. Marvin L. Miller argues for the centrality of performance in the life of Jews of the Second Temple period, an area of study that has been traditionally neglected. The Performanceadvances the fields of orality and epistolography and supplements other scholars’ works in those fields.

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