Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline Oracles: Gender, Intertextuality, and Politics
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Methodology: Deconstructing Binaries and a Hermeneutic of Suspicion -- 2 Dating and Provenance of Book III -- 3 Second Century BCE Political Context -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 1 Hellenistic Complexities and Cultural Hybridity -- 1...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
BRILL
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Series/Journal: | Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism Ser
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| Further subjects: | B
Sibyls
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| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Methodology: Deconstructing Binaries and a Hermeneutic of Suspicion -- 2 Dating and Provenance of Book III -- 3 Second Century BCE Political Context -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 1 Hellenistic Complexities and Cultural Hybridity -- 1 A Retrospective: (De)constructing the Hellenistic Period -- 2 Setting the Stage: Defining Boundaries amidst Debates -- 3 The Changing Shape of Hellenistic Religious Discourse: Crisis of Belief? -- 4 The Hellenistic Saddle Period: an Expansion of Religious Linguistic Discourse -- 5 Hellenistic Education: Establishing Authorship and Readership -- 6 Two Styles: Sibyllist and Sibyllists -- 7 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Why the Sibyl? Reclaiming a Female Voice ofProphecy -- 1 The Archaic Greek Sibyl: a Unique Model? -- 2 Different Branches of a Fluid Sibylline Genre -- 3 Universal History as Marker of Innovation in Book III -- 4 Why the Sibyl? Context for a Female Voice -- 4.1 Context for a Female Voice: Queens -- 4.2 Context for a Female Voice: the Feminine Divine and Female Agency -- 4.3 Context for a Female Voice: Literature -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Establishing Prophetic Authority and Challenging Gender Norms -- 1 A Credible and Illustrious Genealogy -- 2 The Authority of Noah -- 3 Enoch, Etiologies of Sin and Reconstructing a World View -- 4 An Issue of Greed Not Sexuality: Male-Same-Sex Prohibitions -- 5 Jewish Prophetic Models: Challenging Gender Norms -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 The Sibyl in the Muses' Bird Cage -- 1 Intertextuality and Ergänzungsspiel -- 2 The Sibyl and Odysseus -- 3 Reinterpreting the Sibyl's Description of Homer -- 4 The Sibyl's Homer and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo -- 5 Homer in Art and Cult -- 6 Grammatical Subversion -- 7 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The Sibylline Titan Account as Multi-Layered Commentary. 1 Traditional Reception of the Sibylline Titan Account -- 2 Hesiod, Callimachus, Genesis, and Jubilees -- 3 Euhemerus and Lactantius -- 4 Callimachus's Hymn to Zeus -- 5 Depiction Variants, Resonance, and Allusions -- 5.1 Iapetus and His Sons -- 5.2 Aphrodite and the Eleusinian Mysteries -- 5.3 Crete versus Phrygia -- 5.4 Judaean Settlements on Crete -- 5.5 Euhemerus and Crete -- 5.6 Rome and Phrygia -- 6 Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Content Overview of Book III -- Appendix 2 Apotheosis of Homer Marble Relief -- Bibliography -- Index of Primary Sources -- Index of People, Places and Subjects. |
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| ISBN: | 9004426078 |