Biblical Narrative as Ethics?: The Limits of Exemplarity in Ancient Jewish Literature

Abstract 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 Commo...

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Subtitles:Special Issue: Formation of the Subject$dEssays in Honor of Carol Newsom’s 70th Birthday
Main Author: Lambert, David (Author)
Contributors: Newsom, Carol Ann 1950- (Honoree)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Dead Sea discoveries
Year: 2021, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 423-447
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Memory / Self-education / Genesis rabbah / Bible / Story / Genesis-Apokryphon (Qumran Scrolls) / Book of Jubilees / Sirach / Philo, Alexandrinus 25 BC-40 / Josephus, Flavius 37-100
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
HD Early Judaism
Further subjects:B Exemplarity
B Memory
B biblical narrative
B self-formation
B Festschrift
B Newsom, Carol Ann 1950-
B Genesis Rabbah
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