Lawrence M. Wills (Editor/Translator)
Ancient Jewish Novels: An Anthology.
Oxford University Press, 2002. First printing. 0195151410 x/298 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is bound in black leatherette, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book is like new.
This volume brings together for the first time all of the ancient Jewish novels and fragments of novels. Written at about the same time as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, but before the period of Rabbinic Judaism, these texts reveal the ambiguities and conflicts encountered by Jews in this period.