Inventory of Structurally Important Literary Features in the Anonymous and Pseudepigraphic Jewish Literatures of Antiquity
A corpus-based list of generically defined literary features occurring in at least one text of the Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, the Apocrypha of the Old Testament, the near-complete large Dead Sea Scrolls, or Rabbinic Literature.
Work in progress, version -355, 25 February 2011. Please cite information from this document as: A. Samely, P. Alexander, R. Bernasconi, R. Hayward, "Inventory of Structurally Important Literary Features in Ancient Jewish Literature (Version -355)" (Manchester: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ancientjewishliterature, 2010), plus Inventory Point number.
This Inventory is part of the outcomes of the Project Typology of Anonymous and Pseudepigraphic Jewish Literature of Antiquity (TAPJLA) Manchester-Durham 2007-2011, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK).
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G. Higher-level aggregates
10. Compounds of juxtaposed part-texts (cp. also 9.11)
| Definition of the literary feature | Selected texts illustrating the feature |
|---|---|
| 10.1. The text consists of the juxtaposition of large constituent part-texts, each of which has its own thematic, lemmatic or narrative structure indicated either by self-presentation, by projection of a bounded subject matter, or by thematic homogeneousness (i.e., for thematic texts at least one of 1.1-3, 5.2-6, or 5.7.1-2 applies). | |
| 10.1.1. The part-texts are of the same kind, i.e., all narrative, all thematic or all lemmatic. | 1Bar (within the thematic part), GenApoc |
| 10.1.1.1. The part-texts juxtaposed are all thematic-discursive or thematic-descriptive, dealing with substantially the same kind of subject matter. | The Mishnah, The Tosefta |
| 10.1.1.2. The part-texts juxtaposed are all thematic-discursive or thematic-descriptive, dealing with substantially diverse kinds of subject matter. | Damascus Document, 1Bar (within the thematic part) |
| 10.1.1.2.1. Their sequential relationship suggests that they complement each other, at least weakly. | 1Bar (within the thematic part) |
| 10.1.1.3. The part-texts juxtaposed are all lemmatic. | The Bavli, The Yerushalmi |
| 10.1.1.4. The part-texts juxtaposed are all narrative. | GenApoc |
| 10.1.1.5. There are significant ambiguities as to where one part-text ends and the next begins, if read in their textual sequence. | |
| 10.1.1.6. Any manifest differentiation of adjacent part-texts is partly due to their mirroring of divisions within a base text or a partner text. | |
| 10.1.2. The text juxtaposes one narrative and one thematic part-text. [specify if more than one, and specify sequence] | |
| 10.1.2.1. Their sequential relationship suggests that they complement each other, at least weakly (e.g., as "biography -utterances"). | |
| 10.1.3. The text juxtaposes one narrative and one lemmatic part-text. [specify if more than one, and specify sequence] | |
| 10.1.3.1. Their sequential relationship suggests that they complement each other, at least weakly. | |
| 10.1.4. The text juxtaposes one lemmatic and one thematic part-text. [specify if more than one, and specify sequence] | LamR, Sifra with Baraita Ishmael, EsthR |
| 10.1.4.1. Their sequential relationship suggests that they complement each other, at least weakly. | LamR, Sifra with Baraita Ishmael, EsthR |
| 10.1.5. There is important transmission evidence indicating that the sequencing or division of part-texts within the overall aggregate varied. | |
| 10.2. The text consists of the juxtaposition of part-texts which are constituted by poetic or communicative-rhetorical formation, so that one of the points 3.1-4 applies to part-texts. | |
| 10.2.1. The text juxtaposes poems, psalms, songs, etc. as part-texts (3.2, 3.3 or 3.4 applies to each part-text). | Psalms of Solomon, Hodayot |
| 10.2.1.1. The boundaries of some or all of the individual pieces are defined by their inherent formal characteristics (i.e., by point 3.2). | |
| 10.2.1.2. Some or all part-texts only show themselves as separate from each other by their contrast in adjacency (i.e. by point 3.4). The contrast may arise from theme, perspective, opening or closing formulae, terms of address and style (including language, poetic devices). | Psalms of Solomon |
| 10.2.1.3. There are cases of ambiguity concerning where one part-text ends and the next begins, if read in their textual sequence; but regardless of where the boundaries between part-texts are drawn, one of the points 3.2, 3.3 or 3.4 will be satisfied for all part-texts. | |
| 10.2.1.4. The themes of individual part-texts are predominantly homogeneous across the whole aggregate text. | |
| 10.2.1.5. The themes of individual part-texts are significantly disparate across the whole aggregate text. | |
| 10.2.1.6. A manifest theme or message emerges from the togetherness and/or the sequential order of the part-texts. | |
| 10.2.1.7. The formal characteristics of individual pieces are predominantly homogeneous across the whole aggregate text. | |
| 10.2.1.8. The formal characteristics of individual pieces are significantly diverse across the whole aggregate text. | |
| 10.2.2. The text juxtaposes rabbinic homilies as part-texts, according to an extra-thematic principle of order (see 9.11). Point 3.1.2 or 3.1.3 applies to most or all part-texts. | LevR, PRK |
| 10.2.3. There is important transmission evidence indicating that the sequencing or division of part-texts within the overall aggregate varied. | |
| [Another kind of higher-level aggregate, not represented in the Inventory, is created by anthologizing tendencies of which the entity "Midrash Rabbah" is an example: The aggregate text is constituted by diverse part-texts that in themselves are already "higher-level" aggregates of Inventory type 10. Thus "Midrash Rabbah" contains the higher-level aggregate Leviticus Rabbah.] |
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