Holy Lives, Holy Deaths - A Close Hearing of Early Jewish Storytellers

This book translates and examines over one hundred Early Jewish stories about holy figures first told between 150 BCE and 150 CE, shifting attention toward the work of the oral storytellers, men and women alike, who generated the traditions that ultimately came to be preserved in written form. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)

Product details

• Authors: Antoinette Clark Wire
• Publisher: de Gruyter Brill Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2002
• EAN: 9789004126558
• ISBN: 978-90-04-12655-8
• No. of pages: 420
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 244 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 880 g
• Series: Society of Biblical Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism