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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1001389303 Title: Unburning fame : horses, dragons, beings of smoke, and other Indo-European motifs in Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible Author: Ola Wikander Publisher: Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2017 ISBN/ISSN: 9781575067629 1575067625 OCLC:1001389303

  
  

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Unburning fame : horses, dragons, beings of smoke, and other Indo-European motifs in Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible

Author:	Ola Wikander
Publisher:	Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2017
Series:	Coniectanea biblica. Old Testament series, 62
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"  Read more...
Subjects	Ugaritic literature -- Relation to the Old Testament. Indo-European languages -- Influence on Semitic languages, Northwest. Semitic languages, Northwest -- Influence on Indo-European. View all subjects
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