I have built you an exalted house [[electronic resource] ] : temple building in the Bible in the light of Mesopotamian and North-West semitic writings / / Victor (Avigdor) Hurowitz

• Autore: Hurowitz Victor
• Pubblicazione: Sheffield, : JSOT Press, 1992
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (399 p.)
• Disciplina: 222.5306; 299.1
• Soggetto topico: Assyro-Babylonian literature - Relation to the Old Testament; Temples, Hittite; Temples, Oriental
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN BUILDING ACCOUNTS FROM GUDEA TO HEROD: THE THEMATIC STRUCTURES OF SELECTED EXTRA-BIBLICAL AND BIBLICAL BUILDING ACCOUNTS; Chapter 1 BUILDING STORIES IN SUMERIAN AND OLD BABYLONIAN LITERATURE; Chapter 2 BUILDING STORIES IN THE ASSYRIAN ROYAL INSCRIPTIONS; Chapter 3 BUILDING STORIES IN THE NEO-BABYLONIAN ROYAL INSCRIPTIONS; Chapter 4 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN BUILDING ACCOUNTS; Chapter 5 BUILDING STORIES IN MESOPOTAMIAN MYTHOLOGY; Chapter 6 BUILDING STORIES IN NORTHWEST SEMITIC WRITINGS ; Chapter 7 BUILDING STORIES IN THE BIBLE AND POST-BIBLICAL LITERATUREConclusions to the First Part; Part II: THE ACCOUNT OF BUILDING THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM (1 KINGS 5.15-9.25) IN LIGHT OF MESOPOTAMIAN AND NORTHWEST SEMITIC WRITINGS; Introduction to the Second Part; Chapter 8 THE DECISION TO BUILD (1 KINGS 5.15-19); Chapter 9 THE ACQUISITION OF BUILDING MATERIALS: THE LITERARY AND MATERIAL CULTURE BACKGROUND OF 1 KINGS 5.15-26; Chapter 10 THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE TEMPLE AND ITS FURNISHINGS (1 KINGS 6-7); Chapter 11 THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE (1 KINGS 8.1-11, 62-66) ; Appendix: Sources for Mesopotamian Dedication CeremoniesChapter 12 THE DEDICATION PRAYER (1 KINGS 8.12-61); Chapter 13 GOD'S REPLY TO SOLOMON'S PRAYER (1 KINGS 9.1-9): BLESSINGS AND CURSES; Summary and Conclusions; Appendix 1: Temple Building and Fertility; Appendix 2: The Untiring Temple Builder; Appendix 3: Surveying the Building Site; Appendix 4: Temporary Dwellings for Deities; Appendix 5: Temples, Temple Building and Divine Rest; Appendix 6: Gods as Builders of Temples and Cities; Appendix 7: The Cosmic Dimensions of Cities and Temples; Bibliography; Index of Biblical References ; Index of Extra-Biblical Texts
• Sommario/riassunto: This close synchronic analysis of Exodus 1-2 looks at how the pericope's structure, language, focalization and management of information form its conception and judgement of its events and characters. A coherence of concerns is detectable in Exodus 1-2 with allusions to Genesis and the later chapters of Exodus. One chapter is assigned to each of seven narrative unities and deals in various ways with its narrative problems. The resulting eclectic choice of analytical tools includes the study of Proppian structural functions, repetition, public rhetoric, narrative speeds, order and symbolism.
• Titolo autorizzato: I have built you an exalted house
• ISBN: 1-281-80355-3; 9786611803551; 0-567-49882-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814860903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: JSOT/ASOR monograph series ; ; no. 5.; Journal for the study of the Old Testament. . -Supplement series ; ; 115.