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Predicting the Past in the Ancient Near East: Mantic Historiography in Ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean World
SBL Press, 2012 eISBN: 978-1-930675-81-0 | Paper: 978-1-930675-80-3 Library of Congress Classification BS1184.N48 2012 Dewey Decimal Classification 939.402072
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This work provides an in-depth investigation of after-the-fact predictions in ancient Near Eastern texts from roughly 1200 B.C.E.–70 C.E. It argues that the Akkadian, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek works discussed are all part of a developing scribal discourse of “mantic historiography” by which scribes blend their local traditions of history writing and predictive texts to produce a new mode of historiographic expression. This in turn calls into question the use and usefulness of traditional literary categories such as “apocalypse” to analyze such works. See other books on: Ancient Near East | O.T | Old Testament | Past | To 622 See other titles from SBL Press |
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Predicting the Past in the Ancient Near East: Mantic Historiography in Ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean World
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
SBL Press, 2012
eISBN: 978-1-930675-81-0
Paper: 978-1-930675-80-3
eISBN: 978-1-930675-81-0
Paper: 978-1-930675-80-3
This work provides an in-depth investigation of after-the-fact predictions in ancient Near Eastern texts from roughly 1200 B.C.E.–70 C.E. It argues that the Akkadian, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek works discussed are all part of a developing scribal discourse of “mantic historiography” by which scribes blend their local traditions of history writing and predictive texts to produce a new mode of historiographic expression. This in turn calls into question the use and usefulness of traditional literary categories such as “apocalypse” to analyze such works.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
