Profiling Jewish Literature in Antiquity
An Inventory, from Second Temple Texts to the Talmuds
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 November 2013
- ISBN 9780199684328
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages476 pages
- Size 237x162x33 mm
- Weight 866 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book presents a new methodology for the study of ancient Jewish literature extant in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. It arises from 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.
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This book 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. A comprehensive framework of several hundred literary features, based on modern literary studies and text linguistics, allows describing the variety of important text types which characterize ancient Judaism without recourse to vague and superficial genre terms. The features proposed cover all aspects of the ancient Jewish texts, including the self-presentation, perspective, and knowledge horizon assumed by the text; any poetic constitution, narration, thematic discourse, or commentary format; common small forms and small-scale relationships governing neighbouring parts; compilations; dominant subject matter; and similarities to the canonical books of the Hebrew Bible. By treating works of diverse genres and periods by the same conceptual grid, the new framework breaks down artificial barriers to interdisciplinary research and prepares the ground for new large-scale comparative studies. The book introduces and presents the new framework, explains and illustrates every descriptive category with reference to specific ancient Jewish texts, and provides sample profiles of Jubilees, the Temple Scroll, Mishnah, and Genesis Rabbah. The books publication is accompanied by a public online Database of hundreds of further Profiles (literarydatabase.humanities.manchester.ac.uk). This project was made possible through the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Samely avoids idealized genre-forms and totalizing labels. His system is sensitive to texts of mixed form, to changes in form within a text, and potentially through the databases comparative potential to evolution in forms. With the inventory, Samely has created a flexible, robust, powerful analytic tool that enables one to describe a work of ancient Jewish literature with precision and nuance and to illumine it with a rich matrix of comparative data. This is a major advance, comprehensive and sophisticated. No scholar attempting to describe the genre, structure, or literary conventions of ancient Jewish literature(s) can afford to ignore it.
Table of Contents:
I: Introduction
II: Text of 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
Concluding Remarks
IV: Sample Profiles
Jubilees
Temple Scroll
Mishnah
Genesis Rabbah
