Dispute Poems And Dialogues In The Ancient And Mediaeval Near East

Author : G. J. Reinink,Herman L. J. Vanstiphout
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 906831341X

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Dispute Poems and Dialogues in the Ancient and Mediaeval Near East by G. J. Reinink,Herman L. J. Vanstiphout Pdf

In 1989 the University of Groningen celebrated its 375th anniversary. Near Eastern Studies, in one form or another, have been part of the Groningen curriculum almost from the beginning. For this reason the Department of Middle-Eastern Languages and Cultures decided to contribute to the anniversary celebrations by organizing an international Symposium and a Workshop on The Literary Debate in Semitic and Related Literatures. The topic of the Symposium and the Workshop was chosen and prepared by the members of the research programme Disclosure of Semitic Texts. Since 1985 the literary debate in the Sumerian, Akkadian, Hebrew, Aramaic/Syriac and Arabic language and literature has been a central theme within this Groningen research programme. Because the research group sees as one of its tasks to place the study of the literary and cultural heritage of the Ancient and Mediaeval Near East also in the wider context of its connection with Classical Antiquity and the European Middle Ages, specialists in Byzantine and Mediaeval Studies were also invited to contribute to the Symposium and Workshop. The present volume contains the contributions presented during the Symposium and Workshop on The Literary Debate in the Semitic and Related Literatures. Some of the more important issues regarding matters of genesis, development and possible interdependence of the dispute poems, dialogues and related texts, which can all be subsumed under the general type of 'debate', are discussed in the introduction, which also reflects a number of points raised in the discussions during the Workshop itself.

Author : Enrique Jiménez,Catherine Mittermayer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781501510212

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Disputation Literature in the Near East and Beyond by Enrique Jiménez,Catherine Mittermayer Pdf

Disputation literature is a type of text in which usually two non-human entities (such as trees, animals, drinks, or seasons) try to establish their superiority over each other by means of a series of speeches written in an elaborate, flowery register. As opposed to other dialogue literature, in disputation texts there is no serious matter at stake only the preeminence of one of the litigants over its rival. These light-hearted texts are known in virtually every culture that flourished in the Middle East from Antiquity to the present day, and they constitute one of the most enduring genres in world literature. The present volume collects over twenty contributions on disputation literature by a diverse group of world-renowned scholars. From ancient Sumer to modern-day Bahrain, from Egyptian to Neo-Aramaic, including Latin, French, Middle English, Armenian, Chinese and Japanese, the chapters of this book study the multiple avatars of this venerable text type.

Author : Joachim Yeshaya,Elisabeth Hollender,Naoya Katsumata
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110594423

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The Poet and the World by Joachim Yeshaya,Elisabeth Hollender,Naoya Katsumata Pdf

A collection of seventeen essays on pre-modern Hebrew poetry in honor of Wout van Bekkum. The articles in this volume all seek to examine how the religious, cultural, and social context in which the poet functioned impacted on and is visible, either explicitly or more elliptically, in their poetical oeuvre. For this purposes a broad understanding of "world" has been accepted, including both the natural world and the constructed one (society, culture, language) as well as the spiritual and emotional world. History, a pillar of the man-made constructed world, has been used to determine the boundaries: from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, and—in instances where the topic connects to older traditions—to Early Modern Judaism, i.e. pre-modern Hebrew (and Aramaic) poetry. The articles in this volume, in the breadth of their temporal and spatial range and their multiplicity of approaches and methodologies, highlight the richness of contemporary scholarship on Hebrew poetry. The volume invites the reader to engage with this astonishing body of poetry, while providing a glimpse into the world of the payṭanim, and the cultures and societies from which they drew their ininspiration and to which they made such important contributions.

Author : Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004217645

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Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry by Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab Pdf

This volume contains ten chapters on Persian metaphors, tropes, rhetorical figures, and poetic forms and genres, by some of the world's foremost scholars in the field of classical Persian poetry.

Author : Robert C. McKinney
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004130104

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The Case of Rhyme Versus Reason by Robert C. McKinney Pdf

This book examines the life and times and poetry of the extremely prolific and versatile 'Abb?sid poet Ibn al-R?m? (d. 283/896). Particular attention is devoted to tracing the influences in his distinctive poetic style and themes.

Author : Will Kynes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780190661267

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The Oxford Handbook of Wisdom and the Bible by Will Kynes Pdf

"This volume both reflects on the contested nature of the Wisdom Literature category and takes advantage of the opportunities it presents for reconsidering the concept of wisdom more independently from it. The first half explores wisdom as a concept, with essays on its relationship to skill, epistemology, virtue, theology, and order in the Hebrew Bible, its meaning in related cultures, from Egypt and Mesopotamia to Patristic and Rabbinic interpretation, and, finally, its continuing relevance the modern world, including in Islamic, Jewish, and Christian thought, and from feminist, environmental, and other contextual perspectives. The latter half considers "Wisdom Literature" as a category. Scholars address its relation to the Solomonic Collection, its social setting, literary genres, chronological development, and theology. Wisdom Literature's relation to other biblical literature (law, history, prophecy, apocalyptic, and the broad question of "Wisdom influence") is then discussed before separate chapters on the texts commonly associated with the category. Contributors take a variety of approaches to the current debates surrounding the viability and value of the Wisdom Literature category and its proper relationship to the concept of wisdom in the Hebrew Bible. Though the organization of the volume highlights the independence of wisdom as concept from "Wisdom Literature" as category, seeking to counter the lack of attention given to this question in the traditional approach, the inclusion of both topics together in the same volume reflects their continued interconnection. As such, this handbook both represents the current state of Wisdom scholarship and sets the stage for future developments"--

Author : Takayoshi Oshima
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161533895

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Babylonian Poems of Pious Sufferers by Takayoshi Oshima Pdf

Takayoshi Oshima analyses the two most important Babylonian wisdom texts: Ludlul Bel Nemeqi (also known as the Babylonian Job or the Babylonian Righteous Sufferer) and the so-called Babylonian Theodicy. On the basis of the hitherto published as well as newly available, unpublished cuneiform manuscripts, the author establishes a new critical text for each poem and gives an English translation. He offers detailed philological and critical notes to the texts, discussing both the textual and the interpretive issues evoked by individual words and passages. In addition, however, each poem is preceded by a lengthy discussion of its origins, intention, and plot, as well as by more general considerations of its cultural and historical background, including short but important observations on the relationship to Old Testament wisdom literature.

Author : Sarah Gador-Whyte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107140134

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Theology and Poetry in Early Byzantium by Sarah Gador-Whyte Pdf

This book studies Romanos' lively and dramatic hymns, highlighting especially the relationship between theological themes and performative rhetoric.

Author : Richard J. Clifford
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666786583

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Creation Accounts in the Ancient Near East and in the Bible by Richard J. Clifford Pdf

Author : Michelle Borg,Graeme Miles
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443864206

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Approaches to Genre in the Ancient World by Michelle Borg,Graeme Miles Pdf

No less than their modern counterparts, ancient genres were contested, hybrid and ambiguous. This volume, the result of a conference at the University of Sydney, is a collection dealing with some of the many issues around ancient understandings of genre. It presents a series of case studies, some concerned with texts that have loomed large in discussions of ancient genre (such as the works of Ovid), and others, in particular late-antique works, that have received less attention. Ranging from Rome and Greece to Gaza and Syria, Approaches to Genre in the Ancient World makes a unique contribution to the study of ancient genre and to the understanding of the specific texts discussed.

Author : Joachim J.M.S. Yeshaya
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004191846

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Medieval Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Egypt by Joachim J.M.S. Yeshaya Pdf

Offering an edition of secular poems taken from the earliest, fifteenth-century manuscript, this book seeks to evaluate Moses Darʿī’s poetry in the light of the Andalusian-Hebrew poetical tradition and within the context of Hebrew literary activity in the Muslim East.

Author : Kathryn Rosser Raign
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781438497303

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The Origins of the Art and Practice of Professional Writing by Kathryn Rosser Raign Pdf

The Origins of the Art and Practice of Professional Writing addresses the classic divide in teaching written skills between rhetoric/composition and technical/professional communication (TPC). It explores a body of texts that were created earlier than any yet identified by either field: ancient Mesopotamian documents, produced in the eighth century BCE. The book debunks two myths: it shows that rhetoric was practiced consciously and taught systematically long before the Greek civilization existed; and because a large swathe of the public, while not fully literate, had access to the services of scribes, not just men, but women, merchants, and even slaves utilized writing as a tool for social justice. From their earliest writings, humans consciously applied principles of persuasion to the documents that they produced. Rather than being two distinct fields, rhetoric and professional communication are intertwined in their histories.

Author : Elaheh Kheirandish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755635085

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Baghdad and Isfahan by Elaheh Kheirandish Pdf

Renowned as great centres of learning, the cities of Baghdad and Isfahan were at the heart of the Islamic civilization as rich capital cities and centres of intellectual thought. Their distinct cultural voices inspired a unique historical dialogue, which finds new expression in Baghdad and Isfahan, the story of how knowledge was transmitted and transformed within Islamic lands, and then spread across Europe. Capturing the history of Baghdad and Isfahan from 750 to 1750, Elaheh Kheirandish draws on the voices of court astronomers, mathematicians, scientists, mystics, jurists, statesmen and Arabic and Persian translators and scholars to document the extensive and lasting contribution of sciences from Islamic lands to the history of science. Kheirandish bases her narrative on a unique medieval manuscript and other historical sources and the result is more than a thousand-year 'tale of two cities' – it is a city by city, and century by century, look at what it took to change the world. In a feat of travelogue and time travel, this unique book creates parallel stories with modern and historical characters, crossing cities worldwide, and capturing changes through time. Interweaving multiple narratives, histories, and futures, she charts the possible paths – formalized and serendipitous, lost and recovered – by which knowledge itself is translated and transmitted across time and cultures.

Author : Jane Baun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9042923717

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Studia Patristica by Jane Baun Pdf

Papers presented at the Fifteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2007 (see also Studia Patristica 44, 46, 47, 48 and 49). The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.

Author : Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317124757

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Greek Literature in Late Antiquity by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson Pdf

Late Antiquity has attracted a significant amount of attention in recent years. As a historical period it has thus far been defined by the transformation of Roman institutions, the emergence of distinct religious cultures (Jewish, Christian, Islamic), and the transmission of ancient knowledge to medieval and early modern Europe. Despite all this, the study of late antique literary culture is still in its infancy, especially for the Greek and other eastern texts examined in this volume. The contributions here presented make new inroads into a rich literature notable above all for its flexibility and unparalleled creativity in combining multiple languages and literary traditions. The authors and texts discussed include Philostratus, Eusebius of Caesarea, Nonnos of Panopolis, the important St Polyeuktos epigram, and numerous others. The volume makes use of a variety of interdisciplinary approaches in an attempt to provoke discussion on change (Dynamism), literary education (Didacticism), and reception studies (Classicism). The result is a study which highlights the erudition and literary sophistication characteristic of the period and brings questions of contextualization, linguistic association, and artistic imagination to bear on little-known or undervalued texts, without neglecting important evidence from material culture and social practices. With contributions by both established scholars and young innovators in the field of late antique studies, there is no work of comparable authority or scope currently available. This volume will stimulate further interest in a range of untapped texts from Late Antiquity.