Biblical Narrative as Ethics?: The Limits of Exemplarity in Ancient Jewish Literature.
This paper considers whether biblical narrative was used as part of a technology of the self in Jewish antiquity. Many have seen the assumption that Israel's ancestors were perfect and, hence, worthy of imitation as essential to the Bible's identity as Scripture around the turn of the Common Era. Re...
| Publicado en: | Dead Sea Discoveries Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 423 - 448 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2021
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