Standards of (in)coherence in ancient Jewish literature
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27/07/2020Keywords
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Abstract
In this article, we sketch an anatomy of issues and decisions that must be navigated in any attempt to understand coherence and incoherence in ancient Jewish literature, including: the meaning of »coherence,« its relationship to »unity,« the suitability of modern standards of (in)coherence to ancient texts, and the availability of ancient standards of (in)coherence. We argue that modern perspectival representation and modern standards of literary (in)coherence are not necessarily appropriate to ancient Jewish literature, and we propose that these issues can only be properly approached after undertaking an inductive, comprehensive analysis of the ancient Jewish literature itself, in effect, learning the »ways of the text.«
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Teeter , D A & Tooman , W 2020 , ' Standards of (in)coherence in ancient Jewish literature ' , Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel , vol. 9 , no. 2 , pp. 94-129 . https://doi.org/10.1628/hebai-2020-0009
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Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel
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Peer reviewed
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2192-2276Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2020 Mohr Siebeck. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1628/hebai-2020-0009
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