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Between Symbolism and Realism

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Description for Between Symbolism and Realism Hardback. Analyzes the language (poetics) of ancient Jewish historical apocalypses. This title investigates how the dramatis personae, that is, deities, angels/demons, and humans are described in the "Book of Daniel", the "Animal Apocalypse", 4QFourKingdoms(a-b) ar, the "Book of the Words of Noah", the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C, and 4QPseudo-Daniel(a-b) ar. Series: Journal of Ancient Judaism - Supplements. Num Pages: 421 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Weight in Grams: 684.
Bennie H. Reynolds analyzes of the language (poetics) of ancient Jewish historical apocalypses. He investigates how the dramatis personae, i.e., deities, angels/demons, and humans are described in the Book of Daniel (chapters 2, 7, 8, and 10-12) the Animal Apocalypse (1 Enoch 85-90), 4QFourKingdoms(a-b) ar, the Book of the Words of Noah (1QapGen 5 29-18?), the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C, and 4QPseudo-Daniel(a-b) ar. The primary methodologies for this study are linguistic- and motif-historical analysis and the theoretical framework is informed by a wide range of ancient and modern thinkers including Artemidorus of Daldis, Ferdinand de Saussure, Charles Peirce, Leo Oppenheim, Claude Levi-Strauss, and Umberto Eco. The most basic contention of this study is that the data now available from the Dead Sea Scrolls significantly alter how one should conceive of the genre apocalypse in the Hellenistic Period. This basic contention is borne out by five primary conclusions. For example, while some apocalypses employ symbolic language to describe the actors in their historical reviews, others use non-symbolic language. Some texts, especially from the Book of Daniel, are mixed cases. Among the apocalypses that use symbolic language, a limited and stable repertoire of symbols obtain across the genre and bear witness to a series of conventional associations. While several apocalypses do not use symbolic ciphers to encode their historical actors, they often use cryptic language that may have functioned as a group-specific language. The language of apocalypses indicates that these texts were not the domain of only one social group or even one type or size of social group.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Germany
Number of pages
421
Condition
New
Series
Journal of Ancient Judaism - Supplements
Number of Pages
421
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783525550359
SKU
V9783525550359
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About Bennie H. Reynolds
Dr. Bennie H. Reynolds III, Ph.D., teaches ancient Mediterranean religions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at Millsaps College.

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