Strategies of Persuasion in Herodotus’ Histories and Genesis–Kings

Strategies of Persuasion in Herodotus’ Histories and Genesis–Kings
Title Strategies of Persuasion in Herodotus’ Histories and Genesis–Kings PDF eBook
Author Eva Tyrell
Publisher BRILL
Pages 312
Release 2020-04-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 900442797X

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In Strategies of Persuasion in Herodotus’ Histories and Genesis–Kings, Eva Tyrell comparatively analyzes narrative means in two monumental ancient texts about the past. Combining a narratological approach with insights of modern historical theory and biblical scholarship, she investigates patterns of narrative persuasion as a trans-cultural phenomenon and their connection with ancient concepts of reality and truth. The study contrasts differences in fundamental narrative structures of both narratives, such as mediacy and discursive versus diegetic text portions. It explores the role of material remains mentioned in the accounts to evoke or even create the reality of a past.

From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond

From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond
Title From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 684
Release 2024-06-13
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004693297

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Two millennia ago, the Jewish priest-turned-general Flavius Josephus, captured by the emperor Vespasian in the middle of the Roman-Jewish War (66–70 CE), spent the last decades of his life in Rome writing several historiographical works in Greek. Josephus was eagerly read and used by Christian thinkers, but eventually his writings became the basis for the early-10th century Hebrew text called Sefer Yosippon, reintegrating Josephus into the Jewish tradition. This volume marks the first edited collection to be dedicated to the study of Josephus, Yosippon, and their reception histories. Consisting of critical inquiries into one or both of these texts and their afterlives, the essays in this volume pave the way for future research on the Josephan tradition in Greek, Latin, Hebrew and beyond.

Deuteronomy and the Material Transmission of Tradition

Deuteronomy and the Material Transmission of Tradition
Title Deuteronomy and the Material Transmission of Tradition PDF eBook
Author Mark Lester
Publisher BRILL
Pages 329
Release 2024-03-04
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004691855

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Deuteronomy and the inscribed texts depicted within it are often called “books.” Moreover, its treatment of writing has earned it a prominent place in historical accounts of the religion of ancient Israel and Judah. Neither Deuteronomy nor its text-artifacts, however, are books in any conventional sense of the term. This interdisciplinary study reorients the analysis of Deuteronomic textuality around the materiality, visuality, and rhetoric of ancient rather than modern media. It argues that the Deuteronomic composition adapts the media aesthetics of ancient treaty tablets and monumental inscriptions to a story that is itself transformed into an artifact of the past.

Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad

Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad
Title Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad PDF eBook
Author Jonathan L. Ready
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 319
Release 2023-06-27
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0192698664

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad explains why people care about this foundational epic poem and its characters. It represents the first book-length application to the Iliad of research in communications, literary studies, media studies, and psychology on how readers of a story or viewers of a play, movie, or television show find themselves immersed in the tale and identify with the characters. Immersed recipients get wrapped up in a narrative and the world it depicts and lose track to some degree of their real-world surroundings. Identification occurs when recipients interpret the storyworld from a character's perspective, feel emotions congruent with those of the character, and root for the character to succeed. This volume situates modern research on these experiences in relation to ancient criticism on how audiences react to narratives. It then offers close readings of select episodes and detailed analyses of recurring features to show how the Iliad immerses both ancient and modern recipients and encourages them to identify with its characters. Accessible to students and researchers, to those inside and outside of classical studies, this interdisciplinary project aligns research on the Iliad with contemporary approaches to storyworlds in a range of media. It thereby opens new frontiers in the study of ancient Greek literature and helps investigators of audience engagement from antiquity to the present contextualize and historicize their own work.

Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers

Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers
Title Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers PDF eBook
Author Anna M. Sitz
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 353
Release 2023
Genre Religion
ISBN 0197666434

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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Pennsylvania, 2017, under the title: The writing on the wall: inscriptions and memory in the temples of late antique Greece and Asia Minor.

Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity

Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity
Title Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 547
Release 2014-11-20
Genre History
ISBN 9004283897

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A unique variety of approaches to all aspects of urban culture in the ancient world can be found in Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity, a collection of 19 essays addressing ancient cities from an interdisciplinary perspective. As the title indicates, the volume considers both how ancient people lived in their cities as physical structures and how they thought with them as ideas and symbols. Essays in this volume deal with texts and sites from Spain to South India, but there is a particular focus on the archaeology and epigraphy of Roman-era Italy, civic identity in the Roman provinces, the Hebrew Bible and Early Christian literature, Vergil and other imperial Latin authors.

The History of Terrorism

The History of Terrorism
Title The History of Terrorism PDF eBook
Author Gérard Chaliand
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 536
Release 2016-08-23
Genre History
ISBN 0520292502

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First published in English in 2007 under title: The history of terrorism: from antiquity to al Qaeda.