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From Adapa to Enoch : scribal culture and religious vision in Judea and Babylon
- Title
- From Adapa to Enoch : scribal culture and religious vision in Judea and Babylon / Seth L. Sanders.
- Author
- Sanders, Seth L.
- Publication
- Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, [2017]
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 280 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Texts and studies in ancient Judaism, 0721-8753 ; 167
- Uniform Title
- Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 167.
- Subjects
- Religion and religious literature > Middle East > History > To 1500
- Judaism > Relations > Assyro-Babylonian religion
- Assyro-Babylonian religion > Relations > Judaism
- Adapa (Assyro-Babylonian mythology)
- Scribes > Middle East > History > To 1500
- Enoch (Biblical figure)
- Religion and culture > Middle East > History
- Jewish religious literature > History and criticism
- Ezekiel (Biblical prophet)
- Religious literature, Assyro-Babylonian > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-269) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-4800
- ISBN
- 9783161544569
- 3161544560
- LCCN
- 9783161544569
- OCLC
- 991607468
- Author
- Sanders, Seth L., author.
- Title
- From Adapa to Enoch : scribal culture and religious vision in Judea and Babylon / Seth L. Sanders.
- Publisher
- Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Texts and studies in ancient Judaism, 0721-8753 ; 167Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 167.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-269) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9783161544569
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-4800