Scriptural Tales Retold: The Inventiveness of Second Temple Jews

by Erich S. Gruen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567715175
• ISBN13: 9780567715173
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"