Approaches to Literary Readings of Ancient Jewish Writings

In this volume twelve contributions discuss the relevance, accuracy, potential, and possible alternatives to a literary reading of ancient Jewish writings, especially the Hebrew Bible.

About the author

Klaas Smelik, Ph.D. (1977), Ghent University, is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at that university. He has published monographs and articles on Hebrew Epigraphy, Hebrew Bible, Biblical Hebrew, Jewish Studies, Ancient History and Religious Studies, including Converting the Past (1992).

Karolien Vermeulen is Research and Teaching Assistant Hebrew at Ghent University and Research Fellow at the Institute of Jewish Studies, University of Antwerp. She has published several articles on wordplay, metaphor, and related phenomena in the Hebrew Bible.

Contributors include Scott Noegel, Johan de Joode, Hanneke Van Loon, Angela Erisman Roskop, Klaas Smelik, Robert Gordon, Karolien Vermeulen, Ellen Van Wolde, Anne-Laure Zwilling, Tamar Kadari, Lennart Lehmhaus, and Rebecca Kneller.

Product details

• Assisted by: Klaas Smelik (Editor), Karolien Vermeulen (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.09.2013
• EAN: 9789004258198
• ISBN: 978-90-04-25819-8
• No. of pages: 294
• Weight: 587 g
• Series: Studia Semitica Neerlandica
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism