Written in collaboration with Philip Alexander (Professor Emeritus of Post-Biblical Jewish Literature, Manchester University), Rocco Bernasconi (Lecturer of Jewish Literature, Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano), and Robert Hayward (Professor of Hebrew, Department of Theology and Religion, University of Durham).

Samely avoids idealized genre-forms and totalizing labels. His system is sensitive to texts of mixed form, to changes in form within a text, and potentially through the databases comparative potential to evolution in forms. With the inventory, Samely has created a flexible, robust, powerful analytic tool that enables one to describe a work of ancient Jewish literature with precision and nuance and to illumine it with a rich matrix of comparative data. This is a major advance, comprehensive and sophisticated. No scholar attempting to describe the genre, structure, or literary conventions of ancient Jewish literature(s) can afford to ignore it.

• I: INTRODUCTION; II: TEXT OF THE INVENTORY; III: COMMENTARY ON THE INVENTORY; IV: SAMPLE PROFILES

Written in collaboration with Philip Alexander (Professor Emeritus of Post-Biblical Jewish Literature, Manchester University), Rocco Bernasconi (Lecturer of Jewish Literature, Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano), and Robert Hayward (Professor of Hebrew, Department of Theology and Religion, University of Durham).

Samely avoids idealized genre-forms and totalizing labels. His system is sensitive to texts of mixed form, to changes in form within a text, and potentially through the databases comparative potential to evolution in forms. With the inventory, Samely has created a flexible, robust, powerful analytic tool that enables one to describe a work of ancient Jewish literature with precision and nuance and to illumine it with a rich matrix of comparative data. This is a major advance, comprehensive and sophisticated. No scholar attempting to describe the genre, structure, or literary conventions of ancient Jewish literature(s) can afford to ignore it.

• I: INTRODUCTION; II: TEXT OF THE INVENTORY; III: COMMENTARY ON THE INVENTORY; IV: SAMPLE PROFILES

Written in collaboration with Philip Alexander (Professor Emeritus of Post-Biblical Jewish Literature, Manchester University), Rocco Bernasconi (Lecturer of Jewish Literature, Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano), and Robert Hayward (Professor of Hebrew, Department of Theology and Religion, University of Durham).

Samely avoids idealized genre-forms and totalizing labels. His system is sensitive to texts of mixed form, to changes in form within a text, and potentially through the databases comparative potential to evolution in forms. With the inventory, Samely has created a flexible, robust, powerful analytic tool that enables one to describe a work of ancient Jewish literature with precision and nuance and to illumine it with a rich matrix of comparative data. This is a major advance, comprehensive and sophisticated. No scholar attempting to describe the genre, structure, or literary conventions of ancient Jewish literature(s) can afford to ignore it.

• I: INTRODUCTION; II: TEXT OF THE INVENTORY; III: COMMENTARY ON THE INVENTORY; IV: SAMPLE PROFILES