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Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 102 (2012), pp. 321-324
Fest. Ed Greenstein, vol. 1, 2021
A select list of editions, collections and translations of important literary texts from the peoples and cultures of the ancient Orient: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel, Syria, Ugarit, Iran, India, Hittites, Arab/Muslim world; at the end a brief catalogue of works on old Norse texts and legends is added. This very selective bibliography contains chiefly the books and editions with which I have profitably worked in my researches, from 2000 to the present day. Most of these books are included in my personal library. It is thus not a comprehensive overview of every kind of literary production of the ancient East. It focuses rather on those literary texts and genres which have proved useful as comparative material in my literary-historical researches on ancient Greek myth, storytelling and folklore. The list has been prepared for the benefit of the students of my seminars at the university, in which we often study these texts and compare them to the narrative compositions of the Greeks.
This thesis consists of an analysis of two ancient Egyptian mythological manual; the Tebtunis Mythological Manual and the Mythological Manual of the Delta. The analysis is focused on the different modes of structuring and interpreting mythology found in the manuals. The first chapter is a critical overview of the different Egyptological theories on Egyptian mythology, with special emphasis on aetiological myth and etymology. Structuralist theories are drawn upon to formulate two approaches to the mythological material found in the manual and utilized by the Egyptians themselves, viz. the paradigmatic and the syntagmatic. The manuals are found to use model mythological narratives or key myths built upon the myths of the Heliopolitan Ennead to structure the wealth of local mythological traditions. This creates a redundant structure in which the mythology of the individual district becomes an echo or actualization of basic mythic patterns. The Delta manual demonstrates the heuristic nature of this system by adding an extra deity to the Ennead in the form of the female Horus. This goddess is practically unknown outside of priestly manuals but was included to better interpret and associate myths of the Egyptian goddesses. Finally the techniques and structures found in the mythological manuals are compared to those found in the other priestly manuals found in archives, temple libraries or written on temple walls. I conclude that they share similar and compatible approaches which can also be applied to Egyptian ritual texts and narratives.
6th International Congress for Young Egyptologists, 2019
The main goal of my PhD is to consider the phraseology present in the New Kingdom religious hymns with explicit reference to the cosmogonical process, that is, that sheds some light on the way the world came into existence. My aim is to cogitate on the complex iden'ty of the Creator deity, who not only reunites in themselves an amount of names, roles and aVributes but also performs different tasks in order to set the different Cosmos’ components into being. Thus my research is structured around three core ques'ons: Who creates? (The iden'ty of the Creator); What is created? (The outcomes of the Crea'on); How is it created? (The processes, mechanisms and devices used by the Creator to set the World into existence). In this paper I intend to focus on the laVer axis. Indeed the diversity of the New Kingdom religious hymns perfectly aVests the heterogeneity of mo'fs explored by the Egyp'ans to refer to the “First Time” (sp tpj). This seems to be developed upon the three main crea've processes in ancient Egypt: physical emana'on, verbal and manual work. Therefore one faces mul'ple images, such as the mouth and eye-related crea'on of gods and humans (e.g. pCairo 58038), the concept of an uVered Genesis (e.g. pBM EA 10684 recto) or the idea of “shaping”, “fashioning” or “sculpturing” the Cosmos (e.g. BM EA 826). This topic shall here be addressed through a set of ques'ons: How are these different processes conveyed in this corpus? Is there any religious hierarchy between them? Can one iden'fy a paVern to designate the crea've tasks in these texts? And what do they tell us about the Egyp'an demiurgical concep'ons as a whole?
G. Kotzé, C. Locatell, and J. Messara (eds), Ancient Texts and Modern Readers: Studies in Ancient Hebrew Linguistics and Bible Translation. Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 71. Leiden: Brill, 2019
The chapters in this volume address a variety of topics that pertain to modern readers’ understanding of ancient texts, as well as tools or resources that can facilitate contemporary audiences’ interpretation of these ancient writings, and their language. In this regard, they celebrate the contributions of Christo H.J. van der Merwe to the interrelated fields of ancient Hebrew linguistics, biblical interpretation, and Bible translation. Christo is professor of Hebrew language, literature, and translation studies in the department of Ancient Studies at Stellenbosch University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. In the con- text of this department, ancient languages and cultures are studied not only for their own sake, but also for the relevance they hold for contemporary communities (especially, but not exclusively, in South Africa). This approach raises important and interesting challenges for research on, and teaching of, ancient languages and cultures. Two separate, but related questions with which the department is confronted require continual rethinking. These are, first, how best to understand what ancient cultural artifacts, such as literary and documentary writings, visual media (e.g., statues, stelae, stamp and cylinder seals, reliefs, etc.), and the material culture unearthed by archaeologists, communicate about the ideas, worldviews, customs, behaviour, beliefs, convictions, and living conditions of ancient peoples, and, second, how to most effectively communicate this knowledge to modern audiences and help them to acquire the requisite critical skills to interpret the primary sources in a responsible and an accountable manner. https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004402911/BP000001.xml
Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions, 2002
Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2014
This study focuses primarily on the primaeval portions of the Ancient Near Eastern historiographic traditions seen in the first eleven chapters of the book of Genesis and in other parts of the Bible, in the Akkadian Epic of Atrahasis, in the Sumerian Deluge Story, in the Sumerian King List and in the cuneiform Lists of Sages. Secondarily, it includes a brief discussion of Indo-European antediluvian traditions which provide provocative points of contact with Mesopotamian and Biblical materials. All these specimens include the story of the Great Flood, or its equivalent, for it is that historiographically significant story which furnishes the focal point for the basis of comparison. Rhetorical Criticism is the basic method employed in this study. This method is first defined, then it is applied to the first eleven chapters of Genesis; this example establishes the basic pattern and design of the Ancient Near Eastern Primaeval Historiography. The latter part of the study is concerned with adducing the Mesopotamian and Biblical as well as Indo-European parallels to the Genesis model .
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