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PublisherPennsylvania STATE University Press
ISBN-101575063409
ISBN-139781575063409
eBay Product ID (ePID)208516341
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Number of Pages344 Pages
Publication NamePoets before Homer : Collected Essays on Ancient Literature
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAncient / General, Biblical Reference / Language Study, Poetry, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament
Publication Year2015
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Religion, History
AuthorDelbert R. Hillers
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight23.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2014-046254
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal221.6
Table Of ContentForeword 1. "Poets Before Homer": Archaeology and the Western Literary Tradition Part I: Traditions in Metaphor, Magic, and Other Aspects of Literature: Some Examples 2. A Convention in Hebrew Literature: The Reaction to Bad News 3. "The Roads to Zion Mourn" (Lam 1:4) 4. Homeric Dictated Texts: A Reexamination of Some Near Eastern Evidence 5. A Study of Psalm 148 6. Salamalecchi: Formulas of Greeting and 'Salute Jerusalem' (Ps 122:6-9) 7. The Effective Simile in Biblical Literature 8. Dust: Some Aspects of Old Testament Imagery 9. Two Notes on the Decameron (III vii 42-43 and VIII vii 64, IX v 48) I. The "santa parola dell'Evangelio" (III vii 42-43) II. Cateratte (VIII vii 64 and IX v 48) Part II: Traditions in Treaty and Covenant 10. Treaty-Curses and the Old Testament Prophets Detailed Table of Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Works Cited I. The Problem and the Sources II. Types of Treaty-Curses and Their History III. Two Biblical Lists of Curses: Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26 IV. Old Testament Parallels to Treaty-Curses V. Additional Considerations and Conclusions 11. A Note on Some Treaty Terminology in the Old Testament 12. Rite: Ceremonies of Law and Treaty in the Ancient Near East Performative Ritual in the Aramaic Papyri Ceremony in Ancient Near Eastern Treaties Part III: Starting Points: Ugarit, Hermopolis, and Palmyra 13. The Bow of Aqhat: The Meaning of a Mythological Theme I. The Bow of Aqhat II. The Mythological Theme III. The Meaning of the Theme IV. The Meaning of the Aqhat Epic 14. A Proposal for a Difficult Line in Keret lm ank ksp 15. Redemption in Letters 6 and 2 from Hermopolis 16. Analyzing the Abominable: Our Understanding of Canaanite Religion 17. Palmyrene Aramaic Inscriptions and the Old Testament, especially Amos 2:8 I. Palmyrene Aramaic Inscriptions and the Old Testament II. Amos 2:8 18. Palmyrene Aramaic Inscriptions and the Bible A. Genesis 2-3 "The God Yahweh and the Naked Couple" B. Abraham's Purchase of Tomb Property C. "Goddess" in Biblical Hebrew Part IV: Grinding at Grammar 19. Observations on Syntax and Meter in Lamentations 20. Delocutive Verbs in Biblical Hebrew 21. Hôy and Hôy-Oracles: A Neglected Syntactic Aspect 22. Some Performative Utterances in the Bible List of Publications Doctoral Dissertations Directed at the Johns Hopkins University Index of Scripture
SynopsisThis volume collects and reprints many of Delbert R. Hillers's most important published essays and articles, his long out-of-print Treaty-Curses and the Old Testament Prophets, and three previously unpublished essays, including the aforementioned "'Poets Before Homer': Archaeology and the Western Literary ......, This volume collects and reprints many of Delbert R. Hillers's most important published essays and articles, his long out-of-print Treaty-Curses and the Old Testament Prophets , and three previously unpublished essays, including the aforementioned "'Poets Before Homer': Archaeology and the Western Literary Tradition". Hillers gave the latter as the 1992 William Foxwell Albright Lecture at The Johns Hopkins University and in it uses Ernst Robert Curtius's European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages , with its "topological" method, as a model for exploring the connections of the most ancient Near Eastern literatures (including the Bible) to later Western literature. Though one of his latest pieces of writing, "Poets Before Homer" represents, as Hillers himself recognized, a fairly clear statement of what he had been doing in much of his earlier scholarship and the volume collects the best of this earlier scholarship. Most of these essays work themselves out from a particular passage, theme, topos, image, or grammatical issue, and gain their interpretive vantage point by reading said passage, etc. comparatively, whether in light of relevant ancient Near Eastern and/or more recent European literary parallels or with reference to some more theoretical interest, such as modern linguistic theory. Hillers's habit of mind ran toward the particular, toward the individual detail. His genius--if this word may be used--was in his capacity to seize upon one aspect of some larger entity, problem, or topic, to work it through, thoroughly and, as often as not, decisively, all the while resisting the temptation to take up the larger, perhaps un(re)solvable complex of which the detail or problem was but a part. The worked example is the Hillersian trademark--" exemplum followed by moralisatio "--and Poets Before Homer collects all of his best., This volume collects and reprints many of Delbert R. Hillers's most important published essays and articles, his long out-of-print Treaty-Curses and the Old Testament Prophets, and three previously unpublished essays, including the aforementioned "'Poets Before Homer': Archaeology and the Western Literary Tradition". Hillers gave the latter as the 1992 William Foxwell Albright Lecture at The Johns Hopkins University and in it uses Ernst Robert Curtius's European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, with its "topological" method, as a model for exploring the connections of the most ancient Near Eastern literatures (including the Bible) to later Western literature. Though one of his latest pieces of writing, "Poets Before Homer" represents, as Hillers himself recognized, a fairly clear statement of what he had been doing in much of his earlier scholarship and the volume collects the best of this earlier scholarship. Most of these essays work themselves out from a particular passage, theme, topos, image, or grammatical issue, and gain their interpretive vantage point by reading said passage, etc. comparatively, whether in light of relevant ancient Near Eastern and/or more recent European literary parallels or with reference to some more theoretical interest, such as modern linguistic theory. Hillers's habit of mind ran toward the particular, toward the individual detail. His genius--if this word may be used--was in his capacity to seize upon one aspect of some larger entity, problem, or topic, to work it through, thoroughly and, as often as not, decisively, all the while resisting the temptation to take up the larger, perhaps un(re)solvable complex of which the detail or problem was but a part. The worked example is the Hillersian trademark--"exemplum followed by moralisatio"--and Poets Before Homer collects all of his best., This volume collects and reprints many of Delbert R. Hillers's most important published essays and articles, his long out-of-print Treaty-Curses and the Old Testament Prophets , and three previously unpublished essays, including the aforementioned "'Poets Before Homer' Archaeology and the Western Literary Tradition". Hillers gave the latter as the 1992 William Foxwell Albright Lecture at The Johns Hopkins University and in it uses Ernst Robert Curtius's European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages , with its "topological" method, as a model for exploring the connections of the most ancient Near Eastern literatures (including the Bible) to later Western literature. Though one of his latest pieces of writing, "Poets Before Homer" represents, as Hillers himself recognized, a fairly clear statement of what he had been doing in much of his earlier scholarship and the volume collects the best of this earlier scholarship. Most of these essays work themselves out from a particular passage, theme, topos, image, or grammatical issue, and gain their interpretive vantage point by reading said passage, etc. comparatively, whether in light of relevant ancient Near Eastern and/or more recent European literary parallels or with reference to some more theoretical interest, such as modern linguistic theory. Hillers's habit of mind ran toward the particular, toward the individual detail. His genius--if this word may be used--was in his capacity to seize upon one aspect of some larger entity, problem, or topic, to work it through, thoroughly and, as often as not, decisively, all the while resisting the temptation to take up the larger, perhaps un(re)solvable complex of which the detail or problem was but a part. The worked example is the Hillersian trademark--" exemplum followed by moralisatio "--and Poets Before Homer collects all of his best.
LC Classification NumberBS1405.52.H55 2015
