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Literary depictions of the scribal profession in the Story of Ahiqar and Jeremiah 36
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Among the few allusions to mid-first millennium BCE scribal culture are the Aramaic Story of Ahiqar and the Hebrew Tale of Jeremiah and Baruch's Scroll (Jeremiah 36). This study provides a novel in...
Among the few allusions to mid-first millennium BCE scribal culture are the Aramaic Story of Ahiqar and the Hebrew Tale of Jeremiah and Baruch's Scroll (Jeremiah 36). This study provides a novel interpretation of both tales and proposes a newly identified literary subgenre to which they belong by studying the sources independently for their allusions to scribal culture and comparatively for their literary features.
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- Creator
- James D. Moore
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- Language
- English
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- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]
- ©2021
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- x, 212 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9783110752540, 3110752549, 9783110753042, 9783110753127
- OCLC
- on1252706071
- Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts), 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-191) and indexes.
- Introduction -- Allusions to the Aramaic scribal profession in the Story of Ahiqar -- Allusions to the Hebrew scribal profession in the Tale of Jeremiah and Baruch's Scroll -- The Story of Ahiqar and the Tale of Jeremiah and Baruch's Scroll in comparative perspective -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Syriac Ahiqar manuscripts cited