Uses and misuses of ancient Mediterranean sources : erudition, authority, manipulation

Weitere Verfasser: Meccariello, Chiara , [HerausgeberIn]
Singletary, Jennifer , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2022].
Umfang/Format: vi, 352 pages : some illustrations ; 24 cm
Schriftenreihe: SERAPHIM, Studies in education and religion in ancient and pre-modern history in the Mediterranean and its environs 12
Parallelausgabe: Uses and misuses of ancient Mediterranean sources (Online version) | ISSN: 978-3-16-160012-8
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Chiara Meccariello and Jennifer Singletary - Introduction
  • Section A. Preserving, Archiving, and Detecting Sources
  • Marie Young and Tonio Mitto - In Search of Former Kings: Copying Sîn-kāšid’s and Sîn-iddinam’s Inscriptions in the Neo- and Late Babylonian Periods
  • Laura Carlson Hasler - Citation, Collection, and the Protection of Memory in 2 Maccabees
  • Georgios Vassiliades - Livy and the Legends of Rome’s Foundation: A "Double Standard" Approach
  • Nereida Villagra - Source Citations in the Scholia to the Odyssey: References, Subscriptions, and the Mythographus Homericus
  • So Miyagawa and Heike Behlmer - Quotative Index Phrases in Shenoute’s Canon 6: A Case Study of Quotations from the Psalms
  • Section B. Authority, Divinity, and Power
  • Carlos Gracia Zamacona - Divine Words in the Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts (c. 2000-1500 BCE)
  • Gina Konstantopoulos - "These Are of the Mouth of Ea": The Divine Origin of Incantations and the Legitimation of the Exorcist’s Craft
  • Szilvia Sövegjártó - Source Texts as Authority Constructions: A Conceptual Approach to the Old Babylonian Literary Discourse
  • Ilaria Andolfi - A Writing Hard to Wash Out: A Reassessment of the Story about Acusilaus and his Bronze Tablets
  • Francesca Boldrer - Sacra … canam: Propertius’s Aetiological-Religious Poetry and His Use of Sources
  • Section C. Manipulating and Adapting Sources: Ancient to Modern
  • Michael Chen - Adapting Ancient Egyptian Healing Spells onto Late Period Statuary
  • David P. Wright - The Covenant Code Narrative: Neo-Assyrian Influences and Context
  • Mathias Winkler - The Book of Proverbs: Sources Become Invisible
  • Przemysław Piwowarczyk - Using the Scriptures in Documentary Letters from Western Thebes
  • Silvia Gabrieli - Enuma Elish: A Glorious Past and a Curious Present
  • Dustin Nash - Assyriology and the Allosaurus: Sources, Symbols, and Memory at the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter
  • Biographical notes
  • Index ... [long field truncated]