Authors: John Pairman Brown
ISBN-13: 9780800635916, ISBN-10: 0800635914
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Date Published: May 2003
Edition: New Edition
The Israelites and the Greeks formed "the first free societies, cultivating rain-watered fields around a fortified citadel, recording their words about the human situation in a widely accessible alphabetic script." With a keen eye for both comparisons and contrasts, John Pairman Brown investigates relationships between ancient Israel and Greece. In this work, he addresses historical, religious, linguistic, and cultural connections. He brings a vast knowledge of the ancient Mediterranean and its languages to these studies, which will startle and entice the reader back to the ancient texts.
Preface | ||
Abbreviations and Short Titles | ||
1 | The Complementarity of Ancient Israel and Ancient Greece | 1 |
2 | Divine Kingship, Civic Institutions, and Imperial Rule | 49 |
3 | The Mediterranean Seer and the Shaman | 81 |
4 | The Shifting Roles of Women | 119 |
5 | Paradise and the Forest of Lebanon | 147 |
6 | From Particularity to Universalism | 177 |
Select Bibliography | 217 | |
Index | 221 |