Predicting the past in the ancient Near East : mantic historiography in ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean world / / Matthew Neujahr
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| Autore: |
Neujahr Matthew
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| Titolo: |
Predicting the past in the ancient Near East : mantic historiography in ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean world / / Matthew Neujahr
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| Pubblicazione: | Providence, R.I., : Brown Judaic Studies, c2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | xv, 300 p |
| Disciplina: | 939.4/02072 |
| Soggetto topico: | Prophecy in literature |
| Assyro-Babylonian literature - Relation to the Old Testament | |
| Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Middle East Civilization To 622 |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-282) and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Akkadian Ex Eventu Compositions: Texts, Notes, and Discussion -- 3. The Genre Problem: Ancient Contexts and Modern Categories -- 4. Daniel and 1 Enoch: Ex Eventu Prediction in the Early Historical Apocalypses -- 5. Ex Eventu Prediction in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- 6. Ex Eventu Prediction in Greek Dress: The Case of the Sibylline Oracles -- 7. Literary Tropes and Analytical Categories: Mantic Historiography in the Ancient Near East -- Bibliography -- Index of Passages -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This work provides an in-depth investigation of after-the-fact predictions in ancient Near Eastern texts from roughly 1200 B.C.E. 70 C.E. It argues that the Akkadian, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek works discussed are all part of a developing scribal discourse of mantic historiography by which scribes blend their local traditions of history writing and predictive texts to produce a new mode of historiographic expression. This in turn calls into question the use and usefulness of traditional literary categories such as apocalypse to analyze such works." |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Predicting the past in the ancient Near East |
| ISBN: | 1-930675-81-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910964887603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Brown Judaic studies ; ; no. 354.