Profiling Jewish Literature in Antiquity: An Inventory, from Second Temple Texts to the Talmuds

by Robert Hayward, Alexander Samely, Rocco Bernasconi, et al.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199684324
• ISBN13: 9780199684328
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.1"