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2 - Genre and Rewriting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2020

Molly M. Zahn
Molly M. Zahn
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University of Kansas, Lawrence
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Reviews recent developments in genre theory, with stress on the flexibility and historical contingency of genres and on the importance of function in the definition of genres. Explores how this understanding of genre can serve as a useful framework for analysis of different types of rewriting in early Judaism, by considering how rewriting might vary according to the genre of the text being rewritten, as well as how different types of rewriting might themselves function analogously to genres.

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genreprototypesatireflexibility of genresfunction of genresMosaic discourserewritingrevisionreuse
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Genres of Rewriting in Second Temple Judaism
Scribal Composition and Transmission
 , pp. 56 - 73
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Genre and Rewriting
  • Molly M. Zahn
  • Book: Genres of Rewriting in Second Temple Judaism
  • Online publication: 05 June 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108769983.003
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  • Genre and Rewriting
  • Molly M. Zahn
  • Book: Genres of Rewriting in Second Temple Judaism
  • Online publication: 05 June 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108769983.003
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  • Genre and Rewriting
  • Molly M. Zahn
  • Book: Genres of Rewriting in Second Temple Judaism
  • Online publication: 05 June 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108769983.003
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