Ultimate Reflections, Infinite Refractions: Form And Function In The Elusive Genre Of Testamentary Literature
Ultimate Reflections, Infinite Refractions: Form And Function In The Elusive Genre Of Testamentary Literature

Summary/Abstract: Amid the plethora of Jewish and christianized Jewish literature produced during the Second Temple Period, no genre has posed greater challenges to scholars in terms of defying consensus in matters of definition, dating, provenance, and redactional history than the so-called Testamentary literature.1 Despite these obstacles, no genre of its time has proven to be more intriguing. The popularity of testamentary literature in its own time, that is, during the roughly two centuries preceding and following the turn of the Common Era, is evidenced by the fluidity and complexity of its narrative textual history...

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