Texture: Historical Poetics of Ancient Jewish Literature

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.