ancient-documents

This Database contains currently 198 Profiles of individual works of ancient Jewish literature, described according to the criteria and structure of the Inventory of Structurally Important Literary Features of Anonymous and Pseudepigraphic Jewish Literature of Antiquity (which is the subject of a forthcoming monograph, and published as a document on the Project website). Profiles tend to be between 6,000 and 10,000 words long each. A number of other texts will be added (those are already identified by greyed out names). These include a number of (a) individual Tractates of the Mishnah, Tosefta, or Talmuds, which are structurally very much similar to others already represented by a Profile in the Database or (b) individual Targums for which the same holds, and whose literary structures were the subject of a theme issue of Aramaic Studies (vol. 9:1, 2011) devoted to the Project methodology and database. The missing Profiles will be produced in the course of 2012 by A. Samely, P. Alexander and R. Hayward, in order to complete the Database. The completed Database will have some 312 Profiles.