LEADER 03525nam 2200517 450 001 9910155112903321 005 20220304032922.0 010 $a1-57506-464-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000973093 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4772163 035 $a(DLC) 2016021175 035 $a(OCoLC)1301904836 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_99842 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000973093 100 $a20170110h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aInfant weeping in Akkadian, Hebrew, and Greek literature /$fDavid A. Bosworth 210 1$aWinona Lake, Indiana :$cEisenbrauns,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (159 pages) $cillustrations, tables 225 1 $aCritical Studies in the Hebrew Bible ;$v8 311 $a1-57506-463-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 330 $aThose who have spent time within earshot of a crying baby know the stress this sound can induce. Considerable scientific research has been devoted to the causes and consequences of infant crying because it is a public health concern implicated in parental frustration and infant abuse. Infant Weeping seeks to draw on the extensive research on infant crying in order to understand better the motif of infant weeping in ancient literature. The present book contributes to the growing interest in correlating scientific and humanities scholarship.Scientific research can help bridge the cultural distance that separates modern readers from ancient texts. For example, the Akkadian incantations for soothing infants may appear to be strange magical texts from a foreign world (which they are), but they also reflect common human realities that have been part of the parent-infant relationship in all times and cultures. The incantations reflect and evoke emotions and responses familiar to anyone who has cared for a baby. Fuller understanding of the dynamics of the parent-child relationship can help us see commonalities across differences and make foreign texts more interesting and relevant.David Bosworth draws on the natural sciences to develop a theory for analyzing infant weeping in literature. He then analyzes ancient Akkadian magical incantations for soothing crying babies as well as portions of the Babylonian Creation and Flood stories; in the Hebrew Bible, he explores two infant abandonment stories (Genesis 21 and Exodus 2) and the many parallels between them that have been overlooked; finally he examines a select corpus of Greek infant abandonment stories, including stories found in Herodotus, Sophocles, and Diodorus, among other authors. He ultimately places these textual corpuses in comparison with one another. 410 0$aCritical studies in the Hebrew Bible ;$v8. 606 $aIncantations, Assyro-Babylonian 606 $aCrying in infants 606 $aAbandoned children$xBiblical teaching 606 $aGreek literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aIncantations, Assyro-Babylonian. 615 0$aCrying in infants. 615 0$aAbandoned children$xBiblical teaching. 615 0$aGreek literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809/.93354 700 $aBosworth$b David Alana$f1972-$01215878 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910155112903321 996 $aInfant weeping in Akkadian, Hebrew, and Greek literature$92809533 997 $aUNINA