Download or read book Second Temple Songs of Zion written by Ruth Henderson and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although in Second Temple literature we find a variety of songs concerned with the future of Jerusalem, little attempt has been made to analyse these comparatively as a generic group. In this study, three songs have been selected on the basis of their similarity in style, ideas and their apparent original composition in Hebrew. The texts have been subjected to a literary analysis both individually and then comparatively.