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Greece and Mesopotamia
This book proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh to Herodotus and the Babylonian-Greek author Berossos, it paints a picture of two literary cultures that, over the course of time, became profoundly entwined. Along the way, the book addresses many questions of crucial importance to the student of the ancient world: how did the literature of Greece relate to that of its eastern neighbours? What did ancient readers from different cultures think it meant to be human? Who invented the writing of universal history as we know it? How did the Greeks come to divide the world into Greeks and 'barbarians', and what happened when they came to live alongside those 'barbarians' after the conquests of Alexander the Great? In addressing these questions, the book draws on cutting-edge research in comparative literature, postcolonial studies and archive theory.
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Homeric and Ancient Near Eastern Intertextuality in 1 Samuel 17
[...] complicating the picture, parallels often point in several directions, sometimes toward texts composed in different languages and belonging to different cultures. Since the relative dating of ancient texts-and accordingly the mimetic vector-may likewise be indeterminate, meaningful discussion of intertextuality with regard to such texts would appear beset by ambiguities to the point of being doomed from the outset.2 The Hebrew Bible is a case in point. [...] with the criterion of interpretability in mind, the author of the newly created composition has to be reasonably sure that the same is true of his or her intended audience.7 If so, in order to argue that 1 Samuel 17 imitates the Iliad, it is necessary to demonstrate that at the time when the biblical chapter could conceivably have come into existence some Jews/Israelites were, or at least could have been (1) in possession of Homer scrolls and (2) sufficiently literate in Greek to detect and appreciate (not to mention create) an imitation of his opus.
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