BIBLICAL NARRATIVE BETWEEN UGARITIC AND AKKADIAN LITERATURE: Part I: Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible: Consideration of Comparative Research
Despite the enormous gains made by the comparison of Ugaritic and biblical texts, the biblical field has often ignored or criticized such comparisons. One reason lies in the major differences between the Ugaritic and biblical corpora. Part I of this essay focuses first on misplaced conceptions and c...
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| Language: | English |
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Peeters
2007
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Revue biblique
Year: 2007, Volume: 114, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-29 |
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| Summary: | Despite the enormous gains made by the comparison of Ugaritic and biblical texts, the biblical field has often ignored or criticized such comparisons. One reason lies in the major differences between the Ugaritic and biblical corpora. Part I of this essay focuses first on misplaced conceptions and criticisms of the use of Ugaritic in biblical studies and then indicates how Ugaritic may serve as a background or baseline for the study of biblical literature, but not as a general explanation. Part II of this study, to appear in a subsequent issue of this journal, will address some further developments in the history of biblical literature, especially possible Mesopotamian influence in the Iron II period. Accordingly, the understanding of biblical literature, in particular biblical narrative in the Iron Age, may be advanced by being contextualized between the Ugaritic texts and Mesopotamian literature. En dépit des énormes progrès faits par la comparaison des textes bibliques avec les données ugaritiques, le domaine biblique a trop souvent ignoré ou critiqué ces comparaisons. Une raison en est l'importance des différences entre les deux corpus. La première partie de cet article s'attaque aux conceptions et critiques erronées de l'usage de l'ugaritique dans les études bibliques. On soulignera comment l'ugaritique peut servir d'arrière-plan aux études bibliques, mais pas comme explication générale. La seconde partie (prochain numéro de la Revue biblique) se préoccupera de quelques évolutions dans l'histoire de la littérature biblique, et notamment d'une influence possible de la Mésopotamie au Fer II. En conséquence, la compréhension de la littérature biblique, notamment des narrations de l'âge du Fer, peut progresser en étant mise en regard des textes ugaritiques et à la littérature mésopotamienne. |
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| ISSN: | 2466-8583 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Revue biblique
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