LEADER 05618oam 22006614a 450 001 9910816255103321 005 20211004152636.0 010 $a1-57506-723-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781575067230 035 $a(CKB)3710000000346639 035 $a(EBL)3155726 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001422726 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12612607 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001422726 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11432776 035 $a(PQKB)11482341 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16050039 035 $a(PQKB)20468979 035 $a(DLC) 2014047301 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3155726 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11011913 035 $a(OCoLC)897632508 035 $a(DE-B1597)583752 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781575067230 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_79457 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3155726 035 $a(OCoLC)1253313367 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000346639 100 $a20141204h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPoets Before Homer$eCollected Essays on Ancient Literature /$fby Delbert R. Hillers ; edited by F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp 210 1$aWinona Lake, Indiana :$cEisenbrauns,$d[2015] 210 4$d©[2015] 215 $a1 online resource (343 p.) 225 0 $aEBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete. 300 $a"The present volume collects and reprints ... along with three previously unpublished manuscripts"--Foreword. 311 0 $a1-57506-340-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAbbreviations --$tForeword --$t1 ?Poets Before Homer?: Archaeology and the Western Literary Tradition --$tPart I Traditions in Metaphor, Magic, and Other Aspects of Literature: Some Examples --$t2 A Convention in Hebrew Literature: The Reaction to Bad News --$t3 ?The Roads to Zion Mourn? (Lam 1:4) --$t4 Homeric Dictated Texts: A Reexamination of Some Near Eastern Evidence --$t5 A Study of Psalm 148 --$t6. Salamalecchi --$t7 The Effective Simile in Biblical Literature --$t8 Dust: Some Aspects of Old Testament Imagery --$t9 Two Notes on the Decameron (III vii 42?43 and VIII vii 64, IX v 48) --$tPart II Traditions in Treaty and Covenant --$t10 Treaty-Curses and the Old Testament Prophets --$t11 A Note on Some Treaty Terminology in the Old Testament --$t12 Rite --$tPart III Starting Points: Ugarit, Hermopolis, and Palmyra --$t13 The Bow of Aqhat: The Meaning of a Mythological Theme --$t14 A Proposal for a Difficult Line in Keret lm ank ksp --$t15 Redemption in Letters 6 and 2 from Hermopolis --$t16 Analyzing the Abominable: Our Understanding of Canaanite Religion --$t17 Palmyrene Aramaic Inscriptions and the Old Testament, especially Amos 2:8 --$t18 Palmyrene Aramaic Inscriptions and the Bible --$tPart IV Grinding at Grammar --$t19 Observations on Syntax and Meter in Lamentations --$t20 Delocutive Verbs in Biblical Hebrew --$t21 Hôy and Hôy-Oracles: A Neglected Syntactic Aspect --$t22 Some Performative Utterances in the Bible --$tList of Publications --$tDoctoral Dissertations Directed at the Johns Hopkins University --$tIndex of Scripture 330 $aThis volume collects and reprints many of Delbert R. Hillers?s most important published essays and articles, his long out-of-print Treaty-Curses and the Old Testament Prophets, and three previously unpublished essays, including the aforementioned ??Poets Before Homer?: Archaeology and the Western Literary Tradition?. Hillers gave the latter as the 1992 William Foxwell Albright Lecture at The Johns Hopkins University and in it uses Ernst Robert Curtius?s European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, with its ?topological? method, as a model for exploring the connections of the most ancient Near Eastern literatures (including the Bible) to later Western literature. Though one of his latest pieces of writing, ?Poets Before Homer? represents, as Hillers himself recognized, a fairly clear statement of what he had been doing in much of his earlier scholarship and the volume collects the best of this earlier scholarship. Most of these essays work themselves out from a particular passage, theme, topos, image, or grammatical issue, and gain their interpretive vantage point by reading said passage, etc. comparatively, whether in light of relevant ancient Near Eastern and/or more recent European literary parallels or with reference to some more theoretical interest, such as modern linguistic theory. Hillers?s habit of mind ran toward the particular, toward the individual detail. His genius?if this word may be used?was in his capacity to seize upon one aspect of some larger entity, problem, or topic, to work it through, thoroughly and, as often as not, decisively, all the while resisting the temptation to take up the larger, perhaps un(re)solvable complex of which the detail or problem was but a part. The worked example is the Hillersian trademark??exemplum followed by moralisatio??and Poets Before Homer collects all of his best. 606 $aHebrew poetry, Biblical$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHISTORY / Ancient / General$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHebrew poetry, Biblical$xHistory and criticism. 615 7$aHISTORY / Ancient / General. 676 $a221.6 700 $aHillers$b Delbert R.$0646954 701 $aDobbs-Allsopp$b F. W.$f1962-$01687913 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816255103321 996 $aPoets Before Homer$94061741 997 $aUNINA