The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity
Download or Read eBook The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity PDF written by Eva Mroczek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Eva Mroczek |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2016 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780190279837 |
ISBN-13 | : 0190279834 |
Rating | : 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity by : Eva Mroczek
Book excerpt: The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed a world of early Jewish writing larger than the Bible: from multiple versions of biblical texts to 'revealed' books not found in our canon. But despite this diversity, the way we read Second Temple Jewish literature remains constrained by two anachronistic categories: a theological one, 'Bible,' and a bibliographic one, 'book.' 'The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity' suggests ways of thinking about how Jews understood their own literature before these categories had emerged.