Profiling Jewish literature in antiquity [Texte imprimé] : an inventory, from Second Temple texts to the Talmuds / Alexander Samely ; in collaboration with Philip Alexander, Rocco Bernasconi, Robert Hayward

Bibliogr. 427-439

Introduction: a new framework for literary description -- The inventory -- Commentary on the inventory. The self-presentation of the text as a verbal entity -- The perspective and knowledge horizon of the governing voice -- The poetic and rhetorical-communicative constitution of texts -- Narrative coherence and narrative aggregation -- Thematic coherence and thematic aggregation -- Meta-textual structuring of texts -- Correspondences and verbal overlap with other texts -- Small forms in the governing voice -- Small-scale coherence relationships -- The juxtaposition of part-texts in a compound -- Dominant subject matter and scholarly genre labels -- Sample profiles. Jubilees -- Temple Scroll -- Mishnah -- Genesis Rabbah