Genres of Rewriting in Second Temple Judaism by Molly M. Zahn is an interesting, somewhat complex, analysis of how biblical and non-biblical books may have been written and re-written in antiquity. This book is not for the strict novice: not an introductory text, but certainly, if you have some background about the issues involved in the transmission of ancient texts you will get a great deal out of this book. Zahn’s broad contribution here is to show how modern and artificial the separation of texts from the Second Temple period is; and how canonical and non-canonical texts conversed.
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