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University of Durham
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Book title
Ancient Jewish Letters and the Beginnings of Christian Epistolography.
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Mohr Siebeck
ISBN of book
9783161522369
Year of publication
2012
Number of additional authors
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Double-weighted statement
This monograph deals with the full spectrum of Jewish letter writing in antiquity, and compares it with early Christian epistolography. The research was especially complex as it required the collection and analysis of an extensive and varied body of primary sources spanning roughly a millennium (from letters at Elephantine to letters in the Talmudim) in five different languages (Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, and Ethiopic). Some of the texts (e.g. Elephantine, Qumran, 2 Baruch, also rabbinic literature) could only be accessed in manuscript form, which proved both difficult and time-consuming.
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