The Exegetical Terminology of Akkadian Commentaries

The Exegetical Terminology of Akkadian Commentaries PDF Author: Uri Gabbay
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004323473
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Book Description
In The Exegetical Terminology of Akkadian Commentaries Uri Gabbay offers a detailed study of the well-developed set of technical terms found in ancient Mesopotamian commentaries from the first millennium BCE, essential for reconstructing ancient scholarly discourse and hermeneutics.

The Exegetical Terminology of Akkadian Commentaries

The Exegetical Terminology of Akkadian Commentaries PDF Author: Uri Gabbay
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004323473
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Book Description
In The Exegetical Terminology of Akkadian Commentaries Uri Gabbay offers a detailed study of the well-developed set of technical terms found in ancient Mesopotamian commentaries from the first millennium BCE, essential for reconstructing ancient scholarly discourse and hermeneutics.

Jewish Cultural Encounters in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern World

Jewish Cultural Encounters in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern World PDF Author: Mladen Popović
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004336915
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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Book Description
Taking the flexible concept of “cultural encounter” as a starting point, this volume presents a variety of studies which focus on the impact of encounters between cultures, groups, and individuals as it relates to ancient Jewish religion, culture, and society.

Mesopotamian Commentaries on the Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig

Mesopotamian Commentaries on the Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig PDF Author: John Z Wee
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004417567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513

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Book Description
Mesopotamian Commentaries on the Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig includes a cuneiform edition, English translation, and notes on medical lexicography for thirty Sa-gig commentary tablets and fragments, and represents a companion volume to Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary (Brill, 2019).

Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary

Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary PDF Author: John Z Wee
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004417532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 533

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Book Description
Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary explores the dynamic between scholastic rhetoric and medical knowledge in ancient commentaries on a Mesopotamian Diagnostic Handbook, whose atypical language and ideas were harmonized with conventional ways of perceiving and describing the sick body.

Language and Cosmos in Greece and Mesopotamia

Language and Cosmos in Greece and Mesopotamia PDF Author: Jacobo Myerston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009289926
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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Book Description
Argues that Greek thinkers engaged with linguistic concepts developed by Mesopotamian scribes in a process leading to new discoveries.

From Scribes to Scholars

From Scribes to Scholars PDF Author: Yakir Paz
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 3161616308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Book Description
Yakir Paz argues that ancient Homeric scholarship had a major impact on the formation of rabbinic biblical commentaries and their modes of exegesis. This impact is discernible not only in the terminology and hermeneutical techniques used by the rabbis, but also in their perception of the Bible as a literary product, their didactic methods, editorial principles and aesthetic sensitivities. In fact, it is the influence of Homeric scholarship which can best explain the drastic differences between earlier biblical commentaries from Palestine, such as those found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the scholastic Halakhic Midrashim (second to third century CE). The results of the author's study call for a re-examination of many assumptions regarding the emergence of Midrash, as well as a broader appreciation of the impact of Homeric scholarship on biblical exegesis in Antiquity.

Legal Writing, Legal Practice

Legal Writing, Legal Practice PDF Author: Yael Landman
Publisher: SBL Press
ISBN: 1951498879
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Book Description
Prescriptive law writings rarely mirror the ways a society practices law, a fact that raises special problems for the social and legal historian. Through close analysis of the laws of bailment (i.e., temporary safekeeping) in Exodus 22, Yael Landman probes the relationship of law in the biblical law collections and law-in-practice in ancient Israel and exposes a vision of divine justice at the heart of pentateuchal law. Landman further demonstrates that ancient Near Eastern bailment laws continue to influence postbiblical Jewish law. This book advances an approach to the study of biblical law that connects pentateuchal and ancient Near Eastern law collections, biblical narrative and prophecy, and Mesopotamian legal documents and joins philological and comparative analysis with humanistic legal approaches, in order to access how people thought about and practiced law in ancient Israel.

Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk

Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk PDF Author: Christine Proust
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 303004176X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Book Description
This volume explores how scholars wrote, preserved, circulated, and read knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia. It offers an exercise in micro-history that provides a case study for attempting to understand the relationship between scholars and scholarship during this time of great innovation. The papers in this collection focus on tablets written in the city of Uruk in southern Babylonia. These archives come from two different scholarly contexts. One is a private residence inhabited during successive phases by two families of priests who were experts in ritual and medicine. The other is the most important temple in Uruk during the late Achemenid and Hellenistic periods. The contributors undertake detailed studies of this material to explore the scholarly practices of individuals, the connection between different scholarly genres, and the exchange of knowledge between scholars in the city and scholars in other parts of Babylonia and the Greek world. In addition, this collection examines the archives in which the texts were found and the scribes who owned or wrote them. It also considers the interconnections between different genres of knowledge and the range of activities of individual scribes. In doing so, it answers questions of interest not only for the study of Babylonian scholarship but also for the study of ancient Mesopotamian textual culture more generally, and for the study of traditions of written knowledge in the ancient world.

Mathematical Commentaries in the Ancient World

Mathematical Commentaries in the Ancient World PDF Author: Karine Chemla
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108839576
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 475

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Book Description
Comparative analysis of the techniques and procedures of important mathematical commentaries in five ancient cultures from China to Greece.

After Wisdom

After Wisdom PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004529012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Book Description
The nine essays in this volume, written by an international and interdisciplinary group of younger scholars, explore comparative dimensions of ancient Chinese and Greek literature, illuminating the development of myth, reason, wisdom literature, and scholarship during the first millennium BCE.