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Encounters by the rivers of Babylon /
This volume presents a group of articles that deal with connections between ancient Babylonian, Iranian and Jewish communities in Mesopotamia under Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid, and Sasanian rule. The studies, written by leading scholars in the fields of Assyriology, Iranian studies and Jewish studies...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tübingen [Germany] :
Mohr Siebeck,
2014.
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| Colección: | Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ;
160. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Uri Gabbay and Shai Secunda: Introduction; Yaakov Elman: Contrasting Intellectual Trajectories: Iran and Israel in Mesopotamia; I. Introduction; Mesopotamia in Ancient Iranian and Jewish Cultures; II. Listenwissenschaft and Its Lessons; III. Analogy as a Legal Trope; IV. Self-Referentiality in Avesta and Pentateuch; V. Cosmopolitanism, Writing, and Listenwissenschaft; VI. Sasanian Casuistics: Rabbis and Dastwars; VII. The Turn to Conceptualism; VIII. Zoroastrian Legal Midrash; IX. The Problem of Indeterminacy; X. Rabbinic and Zoroastrian Listenwissenschaft.
- XI. The End of Late AntiquityBibliography; Society and Its Institutions ; Ran Zadok: Judeans in Babylonia
- Updating the Dossier; Appendix: Sample list of people with šarru-names belonging to the palatial sector; Bibliography; Caroline Waerzeggers: Locating Contact in the Babylonian Exile: Some Reflections on Tracing Judean-Babylonian Encounters in Cuneiform Texts; Introduction: The Social Location of Exiled Peoples in Tanzania and Babylonia; From Person to Text and Archive; Pathways in Texts and Society; The Case of the Chronicles; Incidental or Structural?; Conclusion; Bibliography.
- Maria Macuch: Jewish Jurisdiction within the Framework of the Sasanian Legal SystemBibliography; The Transmission of Knowledge ; Abraham Winitzer: Assyriology and Jewish Studies in Tel Aviv: Ezekiel among the Babylonian literati; I. Introduction; II. Babylon in Ezekiel: Introductory Matters; III. Babylon in Ezekiel: An Echo of Babylonian Scholastics; IV. Ancient Encounters with the Epic of Gilgamesh (EG); V. Babylon in Ezekiel: The Epic of Gilgamesh; VI. The Epic of Gilgamesh in Ezekiel: Contextual Considerations (I); VII. The Epic of Gilgamesh in Ezekiel: Contextual Considerations (II).
- VIII. More on the Epic of Gilgamesh in Ezekiel
- and ElsewhereIX. Tuppêkā ûněqābêka: The Epic of Gilgamesh Cited in Ezekiel?; X. Text Citations and Tablet Boxes; XI. Conclusion; Bibliography; Bibliographical Postscript; Jonathan Ben-Dov: Time and Culture: Mesopotamian Calendars in Jewish Sources from the Bible to the Mishnah; 1. Local Calendars in an Imperial Context; Excursus: Intercalation and Royal Power; 2. The Week, the Pentecontad, and Their Trajectories; 3. The 364-day Calendar Tradition and Its Mesopotamian Antecedents.
- 4. The Mesopotamian Lunar Calendar and the Rabbinic New Moon Procedure5. Conclusion; Bibliography; Nathan Wasserman: Old-Babylonian, Middle-Babylonian, Neo-Babylonian, Jewish-Babylonian? ; Thoughts about Transmission Modes of Mesopotamian Magic through the Ages ; Bibliography; James Nathan Ford: The Ancient Mesopotamian Motif of kidinnu, "divine protection (of temple cities and their citizens)," in Akkadian and Aramaic Magic; Bibliography; Reuven Kiperwasser and Dan D.Y. Shapira: Encounters between Iranian Myth and Rabbinic Mythmakers in the Babylonian Talmud; I. The Story of the Ridyā