ISBN:
9789004473119
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9004473114
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 455 Seiten
Year of publication:
2021
Series Statement:
Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism volume 199
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bledsoe, Seth Wisdom of the Aramaic book of Ahiqar
Dissertation note:
Dissertation Florida State University 2015
Keywords:
Ahikar (Folktale)
;
Wisdom literature / Comparative studies
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Ahikar (Folktale)
;
Wisdom literature
;
Comparative studies
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Hochschulschrift
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Achikar ca. 700 v.Chr.
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Erzählung
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Aramäisch
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Elephantine-Urkunden
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Weisheitsliteratur
Abstract:
"This book offers fresh readings of the Aramaic book of Ahiqar, an oft underappreciated ancient wisdom text. In undertaking a comprehensive literary analysis, incorporating both the drama and the sayings together, Bledsoe shows that Ahiqar's didactic impulse is founded on a sense of uncertainty about life, offering advice for those in times of distress, much like the titular character himself. While Ahiqar shares many features with instructional literature like Proverbs, the ambiguous cosmic and social order imagined in the text resonate more strongly with the likes of Qoheleth or Job. Bledsoe also takes seriously the Elephantine context, suggesting that the social and political ethic evinced by the work would have resonated strongly with the Judean community in Achaemenid Egypt"
Note:
Enthält Literaturverzeichnis auf Seite [407]-430
,
"The present volume is a revision of that dissertation, which I defended in August 2015 at Florida State University." - Acknowledgments
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