How Long to Read Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans

How Long Does it Take to Read Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 14 minutes to read Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans by Vered Noam

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The shifting image of the Hasmoneans in the eyes of their contemporaries and later generations is a compelling issue in the history of the Maccabean revolt and the Hasmonean commonwealth. Based on a series of six Jewish folktales from the Second Temple period that describe the Hasmonean dynasty and its history from its legendary founders, through achievement of full sovereignty, to downfall, this volume examines the Hasmoneans through the lens of reception history. On the one hand, these brief, colorful legends are embedded in the narrative of the historian of the age, Flavius Josephus; on the other hand, they are scattered throughout the extensive halakhic-exegetical compositions known as rabbinic literature, redacted and compiled centuries later. Each set of parallel stories is examined for the motivation underlying its creation, its original message, language, and the historical context. This analysis is followed by exploration of the nature of the relationship between the Josephan and the rabbinic versions, in an attempt to reconstruct the adaptation of the putative original traditions in the two corpora, and to decipher the disparities, different emphases, reworking, and unique orientations typical of each. These adaptations reflect the reception of the pristine tales and thus disclose the shifting images of the Hasmoneans in later generations and within distinct contexts. The compilation and characterization of these sources which were preserved by means of two such different conduits of transmission brings us closer to reconstruction of a lost literary continent, a hidden Jewish "Atlantis" of early pseudo-historical legends and facilitates examination of the relationship between the substantially different libraries and worlds of Josephus and rabbinic literature.

How long is Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans?

Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans by Vered Noam is 312 pages long, and a total of 78,624 words.

This makes it 105% the length of the average book. It also has 96% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 9 minutes to read Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans aloud.

What Reading Level is Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans?

Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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