Cultural Contact and Appropriation in the Axial-age Mediterranean World: A Periplos (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East) PDF
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Cultural Contact and Appropriation in the Axial-Age Mediterranean World Culture and History of the Ancient Near East Founding Editor M.H.E. Weippert Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Stökl Editors Eckart Frahm W. Randall Garr Baruch Halpern Theo P.J. van den Hout Leslie Anne Warden Irene J. Winter Volume 86 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/chan Cultural Contact and Appropriation in the Axial-Age Mediterranean World A Periplos Edited by Baruch Halpern Kenneth S. Sacks Associate Editor Tyler Edward Kelley LEIDEN | BOSTON The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available online at http://catalog.loc.gov LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016036654 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 1566-2055 isbn 978-90-04-19454-0 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-19455-7 (e-book) Copyright 2017 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi and Hotei Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. Contents Contributors vii Introduction 1 Baruch Halpern and Kenneth S. Sacks Zeus and Prometheus: Greek Adaptations of Ancient Near Eastern Myths 17 Kurt A. Raaflaub The Theogony and the Enuma Elish: City-State Creation Myths 38 Stephen Scully Achaemenid Propaganda and Oral Traditions: A Reassessment of Herodotus’ Early Persian Logoi 60 Jonathan David Evidence of Peace and War in Persian Period Yehud 83 John W. Betlyon Alphabetic Writing in the Mediterranean World: Transmission and Approriation 103 André Lemaire The Name of the Prophet ḥăbaqqûq 116 David S. Vanderhooft ἀμόργη/Amurca: A Semitic Loanword? 125 Eric Lee Welch Twin Peaks: From Mt. Saphon to the Pillars of Herakles 129 Assaf Yasur-Landau A Cache of Terracotta Votives from Mendes: Elements of Popular Religion in the Axial Age 137 Susan Redford vi contents The Origin and Termination of the Foreign Colony-Garrison at Elephantine 149 Donald Redford When Chimaeras were Chimaeras 158 Baruch Halpern Medicine and Mathematics in Fifth-century Greece and the Question of Near Eastern Influence 177 Markus Asper Who Markets Ideas? Elite and Non-elite Transmission of Culture and Technology 212 Kenneth S. Sacks Bibliography 243 Ancient Sources Index 298 Modern Authors Index 307 Contributors Markus Asper studied Classics and Philosophy at Freiburg and Vienna. He did his PhD work at Freiburg on the Hellenistic poet Callimachus and his habilitation on Greek science writing. Having held positions at Konstanz, State College, PA and New York, in 2010 he became Professor of Classics at Humboldt University at Berlin. Asper has published on Hellenistic poetry and ancient Greek science and its literatures. John W. Betlyon is Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies and Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Penn State’s University Park Campus. He has worked as the numis- matist on numerous archaeological excavations in Israel, Jordan, and Tunisia. Jonathan David has been teaching in the Department of Classics at Gettysburg College since 2009. His principal interests include early historiography and the inter- connections between the Graeco-Roman world and the Near East. Over the past several years, he has also served as assistant director for the Jezreel Valley Regional Project archaeological survey and excavations in northern Israel. Baruch Halpern is the Covenant Foundation Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies and Linguistics at the University of Georgia, and Emeritus Chaiken Family Chair in Jewish Studies, History, Classics and Mediterranean Studies and Religious Studies at Penn State. A former co-director of the Megiddo Expedition, and editor of several scholarly book series, he is not to be taken at all seriously. André Lemaire After being researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (Paris), André Lemaire was professor of “Hebrew and Aramaic Philology and Epigraphy” at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris). He extensively published on West Semitic Epigraphy and History of the Levant and is now Professor emeritus. Kurt A. Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor and Professor of Classics and History Emeritus at Brown University where he was also Royce Family Professor in viii contributors Teaching Excellence (2005–8) and Director of the Program in Ancient Studies (2000–9). His research has focused on the social, political, and intellectual his- tory of archaic and classical Greece, the social and political history of the Roman republic, the comparative history of the ancient world, and issues of ancient historiography as well as war and peace. He is currently editing The Landmark Caesar and working on a book on Early Greek Political Thought in the Intercultural Context of the Eastern Mediterranean World. Donald Redford a product of the University of Toronto, has taught at Brown University, University of Toronto, Ben Gurion University, University of Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania State in Near Eastern and related departments. From 1968 he has participated in and directed excavations in Israel, Jordan and Egypt, including Buto, Mendes, Migdol and Karnak. His academic interests include the Amarna Period, urbanism, the Egyptian language and relations between Egypt, Western Asia and Greece. Susan Redford is a faculty lecturer in the Dept. of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Pennsylvania State University. As the director of the Akhenaten Temple Project’s Theban Tomb Survey and the co-director of the Mendes Expedition, she has mounted annual expeditions to the Valley of the Nobles and has car- ried out archaeological excavation in the eastern Nile delta. She has been fea- tured in documentaries produced by National Geographic and the Discovery Channel. Kenneth S. Sacks is professor of History and Classics at Brown University. He works on the ancient Greek world (especially historiography and intellectual thought), classical reception in the United States, and American Transcendentalism. Stephen Scully teaches classical studies at Boston University. His interests include epic, Plato, translation, and Renaissance studies. His book, Hesiod’s Theogony: From the Babylonian Creation Myths to Paradise Lost, will be published by Oxford in 2015. David S. Vanderhooft is sometimes preoccupied with Israel’s prophetic literature, sometimes with Northwest Semitic epigraphy, and always wondering about scribal culture in Mesopotamia and its western shadows. He has recently collaborated with contributors ix Oded Lipschits on a study of the Persian period administration of Judah and has his sights set on a commentary on Habakkuk. If any of these research inter- ests can be fostered while paddling a kayak, so much the better. Eric Lee Welch is an historian of the ancient Near East. He is Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Kansas. Assaf Yasur-Landau is currently the chair of the Department of Maritime Civilization, Director of the Laboratory for Coastal Archaeology and Underwater Survey, and a senior researcher at the Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies at the University of Haifa. He has co-directed excavations at Tel Kabri, Tel Achziv, Qiriat Shmona, as well as underwater surveys at Dor and Achziv. He is the author of six books and edited volumes, including The Philistines and Aegean Migration in the Late Bronze Age (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Household Archaeology in Ancient Israel and Beyond (co-edited with J. Ebeling and L. Mazow; Brill, 2011), as well as more than seventy scholarly articles.
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