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Unburning fame : horses, dragons, beings of smoke, and other Indo-European motifs in Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible /

"In this book, Ola Wikander studies Indo-European influences in the literary world of the Hebrew Bible and the Ugaritic texts, tracing a number of poetic motifs and other concepts originating in the Indo-European linguistic milieux of the greater Ancient Near East (e.g., among Anatolians and in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wikander, Ola (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Eisenbrauns : Winona Lake, Indiana, [2017]
Colección:Coniectanea biblica. Old Testament series ; 62.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"In this book, Ola Wikander studies Indo-European influences in the literary world of the Hebrew Bible and the Ugaritic texts, tracing a number of poetic motifs and other concepts originating in the Indo-European linguistic milieux of the greater Ancient Near East (e.g., among Anatolians and in Indo-European traditions transmitted through Mitanni)--and possibly at earlier, reconstructible levels--as they influenced what became Northwest Semitic poetic culture. The methodology used is what Wikander refers to as "etymological poetics": the study of poetic and mythological structures as transmitted through specific lexical material. One of the motifs discussed is that of destroying heat being used as a metaphor for forgetting important cultural memories and, consequently, of the resilience of such memories being expressed as resistance to burning. Thus, bringing these ancient connections between Indo-European and Northwest Semitic culture into the open is, in a sense, showing their "Unburning Fame"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781575067636
1575067633
ISSN:0069-8954 ;