Holy Lives, Holy Deaths: A Close Hearing of Early Jewish Storytellers

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

ANTOINETTE CLARK WIRE, Holy Lives, Holy Deaths: A Close Hearing of Early Jewish Storytellers (SBL Studies in Biblical Literature 1; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002). Pp. x + 419. Paper $29.95.

This volume is a compilation of Jewish stories, yet it is focused on what is not visible in the texts, the storytellers behind them. Antoinette Clark Wire has collated tales that appear to have arisen between the Hasmonean period and the second Jewish revolt against Rome, although they may not all have been recorded until much later. She includes material from the earliest Christian ...

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