LEADER 03981oam 22006734a 450 001 9910786860703321 005 20221013231052.0 010 $a1-57506-694-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781575066943 035 $a(CKB)2670000000370704 035 $a(EBL)3155668 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001046299 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11656630 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001046299 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11120858 035 $a(PQKB)11566137 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3155668 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10717507 035 $a(OCoLC)922991960 035 $a(DE-B1597)584245 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781575066943 035 $a(OCoLC)849246181 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_79448 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3155668 035 $a(OCoLC)1253313124 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000370704 100 $a20130617d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aToward a Poetics of Genesis 1-11$eReading Genesis 4:17-22 in Its Near Eastern Context /$fby Daniel DeWitt Lowery 210 1$aWinona Lake, Indiana :$cEisenbrauns,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2013. 215 $a1 online resource (298 p.) 225 0 $aBulletin for biblical research supplements ;$v7 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-57506-816-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aIntroduction -- Matters of method -- The text of Genesis 4:17-22 -- Ancient near Eastern context -- Toward a poetics of protohistory -- Conclusion. 330 $aDaniel Lowery commences this work by suggesting that history is a subjective enterprise?it is controlled by those who record it. The power of the present decides what is counted as history, and how the rest of us are told about the past shapes our view of it and, concomitantly, our outlook for the future. In this sense, then, history fundamentally shapes the future. Few questions are more basic to human existence than Who am I? Where did I come from? What is my place in this world? The earliest chapters of Genesis have oriented hearers and readers for millennia in their attempts to address these concerns. And so, in several respects, Genesis shapes the future. In this study, Lowery sets out to understand more accurately ancient Near Eastern language and claims about origins, specifically claims found in Gen 1?11. He uses Gen 4:17?22 as a test case representing the Hebrew tradition explaining how the world came to be civilized. Lowery observes that this passage serves a function within the larger narrative of Gen 1?11 akin to other ancient Near Eastern traditions of civilized beginnings. Moreover, it occupies a place in the overarching ?narrative of beginnings? corresponding to what we find elsewhere throughout the ancient world. Lowery focuses mainly on Mesopotamia, leaving other cultures for later study. This study aims to demonstrate that much of the language of Gen 1?11 is similar in many ways to its Mesopotamian counterparts. More explicitly, here is an exploration of the nature of the language and terms of Gen 1?11 to ascertain what truths it communicates and how it communicates them. At its core, this is a study of the genre and generic claims of protohistory as found in Gen 1?11. 410 0$aBulletin for biblical research supplements ;$v7. 606 $aZeithintergrund$2gnd 606 $aExegese$2gnd 606 $aRELIGION$xBiblical Studies$xOld Testament$2bisacsh 607 $aAlter Orient$2gnd 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 615 7$aZeithintergrund 615 7$aExegese 615 7$aRELIGION$xBiblical Studies$xOld Testament. 676 $a222/.1106 700 $aLowery$b Daniel DeWitt$01512996 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786860703321 996 $aToward a Poetics of Genesis 1-11$93747232 997 $aUNINA