From Adapa to Enoch: scribal culture and religious vision in Judea and Babylon

Book jacket: What was the relationship between ancient scribes' religious visions and their creativity? During the first millenium BCE both Babylonian and Judean scribes wrote about and emulated their heroes Adapa and Enoch. Seth L. Sanders offers the first comprehensive study of their scribal...

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Main Author: Sanders, Seth L. 1968- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Tübingen, Germany Mohr Siebeck [2017]
In: Texts and studies in ancient Judaism (167)
Year: 2017
Reviews:Book Review (2018) (Morton, Russell S., 1954 -)
Series/Journal:Texts and studies in ancient Judaism 167
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Henoch / Adapa / Judea / Babylon / Vision / Religion / Literalness
B Israel (Antiquity) / Religion / Literalness / Historical background / Ancient Orient
B Judea / Scribe / Historical background / Mesopotamia
RelBib Classification:BG World religions
HD Early Judaism
Further subjects:B Judaism Relations Assyro-Babylonian religion
B Ezekiel (Biblical prophet)
B Religion and culture (Middle East) History
B Religious literature, Assyro-Babylonian History and criticism
B Assyro-Babylonian religion Relations Judaism
B Enoch (Biblical figure)
B Scribes (Middle East) History To 1500
B Adapa (Assyro-Babylonian mythology)
B Religion and religious literature (Middle East) History To 1500
B Jewish religious literature History and criticism
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