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1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Texts and studies in ancient Judaism,
0721-8753 ;
167
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Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 167.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-269) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Heavenly sages and the Mesopotamian scribal ideology of continuity -- "I am Adapa!" : the divine personae of Mesopotamian scribes -- Ezekiel's hand of the Lord : Judahite scribal reinventions of heavenly vision -- Enoch's knowledge and the rise of apocalyptic science -- Aramaic scholarship and cultural transmission : from public power to secret knowledge -- "Who is like me among the angels?" : Judean reinventions of the scribal persona -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Seth L. Sanders offers a history of first-millennium scribes through their heavenly journeys and heroes, treating the visions of ancient Mesopotamian and Judean literature as pragmatic things made by people. He presents each scribal culture as an individual institution via detailed evidence for how visionary figures were used over time. The author also provides the first comprehensive survey of direct evidence for contact between Babylonian, Hebrew, and Aramaic scribal cultures, when and how they came to share key features. Rather than irrecoverable religious experience, he shows how ideal scribal "selves" were made available through rituals documented in texts and institutions that made these roles durable. He examines how these texts and selves worked together to create religious literature as the world came to be known differently: a historical ontology of first-millennium scribal cultures. The result is as much a history of science as a history of mysticism, providing insight into how knowledge of the universe was created in ancient times provider's description |
| Biography |
Seth L. Sanders, born 1968; 1999 PhD from Johns Hopkins University; 2007-2013 Assistant Professor of Religion, 2013-2015 Associate Professor at Trinity College; since 2015 Professor of Religious Studies at University of California Davis; 2010-2011 Fellow at NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World; 2015-2016 NEH and Guggenheim Fellow |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Enoch (Biblical figure)
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Enoch (Biblical figure) |
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Ezekiel (Biblical prophet)
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Ezekiel (Biblical prophet) |
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Scribes -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500.
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Scribes. |
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Middle East. |
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History. |
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To 1500 |
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Adapa (Assyro-Babylonian mythology)
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Religious literature, Assyro-Babylonian -- History and criticism.
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Adapa (Assyro-Babylonian mythology) |
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Religious literature, Assyro-Babylonian. |
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Jewish religious literature. |
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Jewish religious literature -- History and criticism.
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Religion and religious literature. |
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Religion and religious literature -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500.
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Religion and culture. |
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Religion and culture -- Middle East -- History.
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Judaism. |
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Judaism -- Relations -- Assyro-Babylonian religion.
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Relations. |
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Assyro-Babylonian religion. |
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Assyro-Babylonian religion -- Relations -- Judaism.
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Interfaith relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sanders, Seth L. From Adapa to Enoch. Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, [2017] 9783161544569 (DLC) 2017439581 (OCoLC)991607468 |
| ISBN |
9783161547270 (electronic book) |
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3161547276 |
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9783161544569 |
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3161544560 |
| Standard No. |
9783161544569 |
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