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Subtitle: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts
Edition: Reprint edition
Publisher: Summit Books
Published: 1984
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780671454678
Subjects: Judaism - Sacred Writings; Reference; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Judaism; Sources; Religion
First sentence: We are perhaps used to thinking of the Hebrew Bible, together with the poems of Homer and Hesiod, as the literature of the archaic world-without considering that these formed only a fraction of the written discourse of ancient times.