The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity

The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity
Author: Eva Mroczek
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2016
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0190279834

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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.


The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Eva Mroczek
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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' boo
Antiquity Imagined
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Robin Derricourt
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-26 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Outsiders have long attributed to the Middle East, and especially to ancient Egypt, meanings that go way beyond the rational and observable. The region has been
Antiquity Imagined
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Robin Derricourt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-26 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Outsiders have long attributed to the Middle East, and especially to ancient Egypt, meanings that go way beyond the rational and observable. The region has been
The Nation and Its Ruins
Language: en
Pages: 375
Authors: Yannis Hamilakis
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-02 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Romantic Antiquity
Language: en
Pages: 317
Authors: Jonathan Sachs
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-02-04 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This work argues that Rome is relevant to the Romantic period not as the continuation of an earlier neoclassicism, but rather as a concept that is simultaneousl