Research Catalog

Title

Representing the wise, a gendered approach : proceedings of the 1st Melammu Workshop. Lille, 4-5 April 2016 / edited by Stéphanie Anthonioz and Sebastian Fink.

Author

Melammu Workshop (1st : 2016 : Lille, Belgium), issuing body.

Publication

Münster : Zaphon, 2019.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Anthonioz, Stéphanie
• Fink, Sebastian, 1982-

Description

206 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

The first of the Melammu Workshops askes how female and male representatives of the wise, female and male sages, were conceptualized in antiquity and whether there was a clear difference between female and male wisdom.

Series Statement

Melammu workshops and monographs ; 1

Uniform Title

Melammu workshops and monographs ; 1.

Subject

• Wisdom in literature > Congresses
• Wisdom literature > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > Congresses
• Assyro-Babylonian literature > History and criticism > Congresses
• Classical literature > History and criticism > Congresses
• Latin literature > History and criticism > Congresses
• Women in literature > Congresses
• Sex role in literature > Congresses
• Gender identity in literature > Congresses
• Assyro-Babylonian literature
• Classical literature
• Gender identity in literature
• Latin literature
• Sex role in literature
• Wisdom in literature
• Wisdom literature
• Women in literature
• Eastern Mediterranean

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Informational works.
• Literary criticism.

Note

• "The first Melammu Workshop 'Representing the wise : a gendered approach' was held in 'Le Maison des chercheurs' at the Catholic University of Lille in April 2016 and assembled a team of twelve scholars from Europe and Canada to closely examine the representation of the wise from a gendered perspective"--Introduction.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Representing the Wise: A Gendered Approach. Introduction / Stéphanie Anthonioz, Sebastian Fin -- Female Sages in the Sumerian tradition of Mesopotamia / Gebhard Selz -- Male Sages in Sumerian Literature / Peeter Espak -- Female Sages in Akkadian Literature / Saana Svärd -- Male Sages in Akkadian Literature / Raija Mattila -- The Sages/Wisemen in Ancient Egypt / Pascal Vernus -- Memories of Female (and Male) Sages in late Persian/Early Hellenistic Yehud Considerations Informed by Social Memory and Current Cross- and Trans-disciplinary Trends in the Study of Wisdom / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Lady Wisdom in Prov 1-9; 31: Context, Definition and Function of her Personification / Stéphanie Anthonio -- Lady Wisdom in Greek Culture: Athena as a Deity of Polymorphic Intelligence / Ennio Biondi -- Paideia Makes the Man: A Gendered Approach to the Figure of the Wise Man in Imperial Rome / Claudia Horst -- Female Sages in Roman Literature: selected examples Kordula Schnegg.

Call Number

JFE 21-1172

ISBN

• 9783963270680
• 3963270683

OCLC

1128823984

Conference

Melammu Workshop (1st : 2016 : Lille, Belgium), issuing body.

Title

Representing the wise, a gendered approach : proceedings of the 1st Melammu Workshop. Lille, 4-5 April 2016 / edited by Stéphanie Anthonioz and Sebastian Fink.

Publisher

Münster : Zaphon, 2019.

Type of Content

text

still image

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Melammu workshops and monographs ; 1

Melammu workshops and monographs ; 1.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Anthonioz, Stéphanie, editor.

Fink, Sebastian, 1982- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-1172