page_title: The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity
hierarchical_section_title: The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity
caption_attribution_description: English: The first of two parchment sheets making up 4Q41 or 4QDeuteronomyn, also known as the "All Souls Deuteronomy", one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, dated to the first century BC. This first sheet contains Deuteronomy 8:5-10.
context_page_description: The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity is a monograph by Eva Mroczek, a scholar of ancient Judaism. Published by Oxford University Press in 2016, it argues that modern concepts of the Bible and even of the book itself—which refer to texts that are generally stable, finalized and/or definitive—are inapplicable to the Second Temple era of Judaism. The book suggests that scholars should avoid employing contemporary ideas of authorship in their studies of early Jewish texts.
context_section_description: The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity is a monograph by Eva Mroczek, a scholar of ancient Judaism. Published by Oxford University Press in 2016, it argues that modern concepts of the Bible and even of the book itself—which refer to texts that are generally stable, finalized and/or definitive—are inapplicable to the Second Temple era of Judaism. The book suggests that scholars should avoid employing contemporary ideas of authorship in their studies of early Jewish texts.
caption: 4Q41, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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