From Adapa to Enoch: scribal culture and religious vision in Judea and Babylon
Book jacket: What was the relationship between ancient scribes' religious visions and their creativity? During the first millenium BCE both Babylonian and Judean scribes wrote about and emulated their heroes Adapa and Enoch. Seth L. Sanders offers the first comprehensive study of their scribal...
| Résumé: | Book jacket: What was the relationship between ancient scribes' religious visions and their creativity? During the first millenium BCE both Babylonian and Judean scribes wrote about and emulated their heroes Adapa and Enoch. Seth L. Sanders offers the first comprehensive study of their scribal ideologies and the historical connections between them 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 |
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| Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 237-269 |
| ISBN: | 3161544560 |