Unburning fame : horses, dragons, beings of smoke, and other Indo-European motifs in Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible /

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Author / Creator:	Wikander, Ola, author.
Imprint:	Eisenbrauns : Winona Lake, Indiana, [2017] ©2017
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Coniectanea biblica. Old Testament series, 0069-8954 ; 62 Coniectanea biblica. Old Testament series ; 62.
Subject:	Bible. -- Old Testament -- Language, style. Bible. -- Old Testament. Ugaritic literature -- Relation to the Old Testament. Indo-European languages -- Influence on Semitic languages, Northwest. Semitic languages, Northwest -- Influence on Indo-European. Ugaritic literature -- Relation to the Old Testament.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11704988

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ISBN:	9781575067636 1575067633 9781575067629 1575067625
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	"In this book, Ola Wikander studies Indo-European influences in the literary world of the Hebrew Bible and the Ugaritic texts, tracing a number of poetic motifs and other concepts originating in the Indo-European linguistic milieux of the greater Ancient Near East (e.g., among Anatolians and in Indo-European traditions transmitted through Mitanni)--and possibly at earlier, reconstructible levels--as they influenced what became Northwest Semitic poetic culture. The methodology used is what Wikander refers to as "etymological poetics": the study of poetic and mythological structures as transmitted through specific lexical material. One of the motifs discussed is that of destroying heat being used as a metaphor for forgetting important cultural memories and, consequently, of the resilience of such memories being expressed as resistance to burning. Thus, bringing these ancient connections between Indo-European and Northwest Semitic culture into the open is, in a sense, showing their "Unburning Fame"--
Other form:	Print version: Wikander, Ola. Unburning fame. Eisenbrauns : Winona Lake, Indiana, [2017] 9781575067629

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