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...
| Published in: | Coniectanea biblica / Old Testament series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Winona Lake, Ind.
Eisenbrauns
2017
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| In: |
Coniectanea biblica / Old Testament series (62)
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| Series/Journal: | Coniectanea biblica / Old Testament series
62 |
| RelBib Classification: | BC Ancient Orient; religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Indo-European languages
Influence on Semitic languages, Northwest
B History of religion studies B Animals B Fight with a dragon B Horse B Semitic languages, Northwest Influence on Indo-European B Bible. Old Testament Language, style B Ancient Orient B Ugaritic literature Relation to the Old Testament B Motivgeschichte Subject B Metaphor B Symbolics |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-178) and index |
| ISBN: | 1575067625 |