Scriptural Tales Retold: The Inventiveness of Second Temple Jews by Gruen, Erich S.

Scriptural Tales Retold: The Inventiveness of Second Temple Jews

Erich S. Gruen investigates a remarkable phenomenon in religious and literary history: the freedom with which Jewish...
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Author: Erich S. Gruen
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Scriptural Tales Retold: The Inventiveness of Second Temple Jews by Gruen, Erich S.

Scriptural Tales Retold: The Inventiveness of Second Temple Jews

$385.79

Scriptural Tales Retold: The Inventiveness of Second Temple Jews

$385.79
Author: Erich S. Gruen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Erich S. Gruen investigates a remarkable phenomenon in religious and literary history: the freedom with which Jewish writers in antiquity retold and recast, sometimes distorted or bypassed, biblical narratives that ostensibly had the status of sacred texts. Gruen asks the question of what prompted such tampering with tales that carried divine authority, and what implications this widespread practice of liberal revising had for attitudes toward the sacrality of the scriptures in general.

Gruen focuses upon writings of the Second Temple period, an era of the deep integration of Jewish history and the Greco-Roman world. Gruen brings to the task the training of a classicist and ancient historian rather than that of a biblical textual critic or a rabbinics scholar, not pursuing the commentaries of the later rabbis with their very different approaches, methods, and goals. As such, Gruen's emphasis rests upon narrative rather than legal matters, the haggadic rather than the halakhic. The former lends itself most readily to the creative instincts of the re-tellers.

Author: Erich S. Gruen
Publisher: T&T Clark
Published: 08/22/2024
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780567715173

About the Author
Erich S. Gruen is the Gladys Rehard Wood Professor Emeritus of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

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