Book of Jasher

Anonymous

A Midrashic Retelling of Genesis, Exodus, Patriarchal Legends, and Israelite Origins

15,60 €

ISBN: 9788027380060

Breite: 15,2 cm

Höhe: 22,9 cm

Gewicht: 376 g

Produktinformationen "Book of Jasher"

The Book of Jasher is an expansive prose retelling of biblical history, moving from Creation and the patriarchs through the Exodus and the conquest traditions, with particular delight in filling narrative gaps left by Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Joshua. Written in a midrashic mode, it amplifies motives, speeches, genealogies, and dramatic episodes, blending scriptural paraphrase with imaginative elaboration. Its style is direct, episodic, and antiquarian, situated within the broader tradition of Jewish exegetical storytelling that seeks moral, theological, and historical coherence behind terse biblical accounts. The work is anonymous, and its attribution to an ancient "Book of Jasher" mentioned in Joshua and Samuel has long been debated. The surviving text is best understood not as the lost biblical source, but as a later pseudepigraphal or midrashic composition shaped by reverence for Scripture and a desire to make sacred history more continuous and vivid. Its author, or compilers, likely drew upon inherited legends, rabbinic motifs, and interpretive traditions. Readers interested in biblical reception, apocryphal literature, and the imaginative afterlife of Scripture will find this book especially rewarding. It is not merely a curiosity, but a revealing witness to how communities expanded, explained, and inhabited the biblical past.

Eigenschaften "Book of Jasher"

Format:	Taschenbuch / Softcover
Thema/BIC:	Altes Testament, Jüdische Texte: Tanach, Tora, Nevi¿im, Ketuvim, Kritik und Exegese heiliger Texte
Verlag:	e-artnow

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