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Document Type: | Book |
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Ola Wikander |
ISBN: | 9781575067629 1575067625 |
OCLC Number: | 1001389303 |
Description: | xi, 185 s |
Contents: | Preface1. Introduction2. Preamble: The Semitic and Indo-European Language Families, and Possible Arenas of Interaction3. Horse and Plow: Case Studies in Technological Indo-European/Hebrew vocabulary4.Biblical Chaos Dragons-and Indo-European Ones5. Beings of Smoke: Terms for Living Breath and Humanity in Indo-European, Ugaritic, and Hebrew-and Remarks on Fatlings and Merciful Bodies6. When Jeroboam Divided His God7. Dagan/Dagon as a Possibly Indo-European-derived Name, and some Methodological Questions Raised by Religio-historical Etymology8. Strangers, Boundary Crossers, and Young Predators in Hebrew and Indo-European: gwr, *h3erbh-, and hI (R)abiru9. Fame That Does Not Burn: The Verb tI+/-khIGBP;, the Drought Motif, Indo-European *dhgwhei-, and Etymological Poetics10. Dragons Returning Home: The "Pizza Effect"11. In Conclusion12. Abbreviations13. Bibliography14. Index of Personal Names15. Index locorum |
Series Title: | Coniectanea biblica. Old Testament series, 62 |
Responsibility: | Ola Wikander |
Abstract:
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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"Recommended for anyone interested in the latest and occasionally the quirkiest views on some of the most fascinating but largely unanswerable questions of interpretation of terms and concepts found within the Hebrew Bible."-Joanna Toeyraanvuori, Review of Biblical Literature Read more...
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