Texture: Historical Poetics of Ancient Jewish Literature

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Texture is a joint Harvard-St Andrews research network (co-principal investigators D. Andrew Teeter and William A. Tooman). It works toward a better comprehension of the full array of literary features that give shape and texture to the documents of ancient Judaism. The chief aim is to recover, as fully as possible, a historical poetics of ancient Jewish literature: the full spectrum of literary conventions used by ancient Jewish writers (to c. 250 CE) and the competencies of their readers, defined and described according to their own cultural conventions.
StatusActive
Effective start/end date1/04/2230/04/27

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