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Ancient Jewish Novels Hillel Halkin How do you grow fromIn the Greco Roman period there arose among the Jews a new form for retelling Bible stories and for composing new religious storiesthe novel. Written around the time of the Dead Sea Scrolls and New Testament, these worldly texts reveal the ambiguities and conflicts encountered by Jews of that period. Some of the texts here are well known, while others will be totally new to modern readers. Some are developed novels, while others are rudimentary