The Exagoge of Ezekiel

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Author: Howard Jacobson

ISBN-10: 0521122430

ISBN-13: 9780521122436

Category: Ezekiel (2nd cent. b.c) -> Exodus

The Exagoge is a drama on the theme of the Jewish Exodus, written in Greek in the form of a Greek tragedy by a Jew living in Alexandria probably at some time during the second century BC. It survives in 269 lines - not isolated verses but forming several continuous passages - enough to give the shape of the play and to reveal Ezekiel as a tragedian of significance. For the student of Jewish literary history and thought Ezekiel is a most important source, of interest for being one of the...

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Introduction; The Exagoge: text and translation; Commentary; Appendix: the metre and prosody of the Exagoge; Notes.

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