04091oam 22007214a 450 991097397110332120240416124523.09781575066943157506694710.1515/9781575066943(CKB)2670000000370704(EBL)3155668(SSID)ssj0001046299(PQKBManifestationID)11656630(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001046299(PQKBWorkID)11120858(PQKB)11566137(Au-PeEL)EBL3155668(CaPaEBR)ebr10717507(OCoLC)922991960(DE-B1597)584245(DE-B1597)9781575066943(OCoLC)849246181(MdBmJHUP)musev2_79448(OCoLC)1253313124(MiAaPQ)EBC3155668(Perlego)2034223(EXLCZ)99267000000037070420130617d2013 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrToward a Poetics of Genesis 1-11Reading Genesis 4:17-22 in Its Near Eastern Context /by Daniel DeWitt Lowery1st ed.Winona Lake, Indiana :Eisenbrauns,2013.©2013.1 online resource (298 p.)Bulletin for biblical research supplements ;7Description based upon print version of record.9781575068169 1575068168 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Introduction -- Matters of method -- The text of Genesis 4:17-22 -- Ancient near Eastern context -- Toward a poetics of protohistory -- Conclusion.Daniel Lowery commences this work by suggesting that history is a subjective enterprise—it is controlled by those who record it. The power of the present decides what is counted as history, and how the rest of us are told about the past shapes our view of it and, concomitantly, our outlook for the future. In this sense, then, history fundamentally shapes the future. Few questions are more basic to human existence than Who am I? Where did I come from? What is my place in this world? The earliest chapters of Genesis have oriented hearers and readers for millennia in their attempts to address these concerns. And so, in several respects, Genesis shapes the future. In this study, Lowery sets out to understand more accurately ancient Near Eastern language and claims about origins, specifically claims found in Gen 1–11. He uses Gen 4:17–22 as a test case representing the Hebrew tradition explaining how the world came to be civilized. Lowery observes that this passage serves a function within the larger narrative of Gen 1–11 akin to other ancient Near Eastern traditions of civilized beginnings. Moreover, it occupies a place in the overarching “narrative of beginnings” corresponding to what we find elsewhere throughout the ancient world. Lowery focuses mainly on Mesopotamia, leaving other cultures for later study. This study aims to demonstrate that much of the language of Gen 1–11 is similar in many ways to its Mesopotamian counterparts. More explicitly, here is an exploration of the nature of the language and terms of Gen 1–11 to ascertain what truths it communicates and how it communicates them. At its core, this is a study of the genre and generic claims of protohistory as found in Gen 1–11.Bulletin for biblical research supplements ;7.ZeithintergrundgndExegesegndRELIGIONBiblical StudiesOld TestamentbisacshAlter OrientgndCriticism, interpretation, etc.Zeithintergrund.Exegese.RELIGIONBiblical StudiesOld Testament.222/.1106Lowery Daniel DeWitt1805310MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910973971103321Toward a Poetics of Genesis 1-114353807UNINA