Download or read book Preposterous Poetics written by Simon Goldhill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does literary form change as Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape? What is the impact of literary tradition and the new pressures of religious thinking? Tracing a journey over the first millennium that includes works in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, this book changes our understanding of late antiquity and how its literary productions make a significant contribution to the cultural changes that have shaped western Europe.