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SAMELY, A. A., Profiling Jewish Literature in Antiquity. An Inventory, from Second Temple Texts to the Talmuds. Oxford University Press, 2013. 476p. Hardback. Samely avoids idealized genre-forms and totalizing labels. His system is sensitive to texts of mixed form, to changes in form within a text, and potentially through the databases comparative potential to evolution in forms. With the inventory, Samely has created a flexible, robust, powerful analytic tool that enables one to describe a work of ancient Jewish literature with precision and nuance and to illumine it with a rich matrix of comparative data. This is a major advance, comprehensive and sophisticated. No scholar attempting to describe the genre, structure, or literary conventions of ancient Jewish literature(s) can afford to ignore it. William A. Tooman, Journal of Semitic Studies |a 10/4/17 (Publisher's information). € 169.85 (New) (Printed on Demand) (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9780199684328