A life of Psalms in Jewish late antiquity
"This book clarifies the world of late ancient Judaism through the versatile and powerful lens of the Psalter. It asks a simple set of questions: Where did late ancient Jews encounter the Psalms? How did they engage with the work? And what meanings did they produce? It answers these queries by...
| Summary: | "This book clarifies the world of late ancient Judaism through the versatile and powerful lens of the Psalter. It asks a simple set of questions: Where did late ancient Jews encounter the Psalms? How did they engage with the work? And what meanings did they produce? It answers these queries by reconstructing and contextualizing a diverse set of religious practices performed with and on the Psalter, such as handling a physical copy, reading from it, interpreting it exegetically, singing it as liturgy, invoking it as magic and reciting it as an act of piety. This book draws from and contributes to the fields of ancient Judaism, biblical reception, book history and the history of reading"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | x, 263 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5128-2418-6 |
