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Arlette
Apr 17, 2012, 12:46:15 AM4/17/12
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Dear Group,
Here are some news from
1. Vandenhoeck & Rupert:
Miller, G.P., 2011. The Ways of a King: Legal and Political Ideas in the
Bible (http://www.v-r.de:80/en/title-2-2/the_ways_of_a_king-1007968/)
2. NYU: Workshop 19.5.2012
Between Belief and Science: The Contribution of Writing and Law to Ancient
Religious Thought (is...@nyu.edu)
This workshop will investigate how the
organizational aspects of
writing, reading signs, divination, and law intersect to arrive at a
new approach to ancient Near Eastern religions. Most modern
scholarship has defined a culture’s religion through the lens of
ritual and the cult of the gods. Rather than stressing action in the
communication with the divine world, the exegetical side of
communication will be emphasized, investigating how cognitive
capacities for object recognition, categorization and
conceptualization, along with the relationship between the creating
and reading of cuneiform signs and the creating and reading of symbols
in nature, shaped how ancient religious experts recorded and
interpreted the divine world. As the word kittu is used for both
justice and the regularity of the course of the stars, the role of law
in defining social organization and hierarchies will also be examined,
in particular the role of the king as a divinely appointed ruler in
charge of securing cosmic order through civil order. Such a complex
notion of order calls for a reevaluation of the ancient notion of
nature and redefinition of the hitherto simplistic approach to the
‘deification’ of the forces of nature.
writing, reading signs, divination, and law intersect to arrive at a
new approach to ancient Near Eastern religions. Most modern
scholarship has defined a culture’s religion through the lens of
ritual and the cult of the gods. Rather than stressing action in the
communication with the divine world, the exegetical side of
communication will be emphasized, investigating how cognitive
capacities for object recognition, categorization and
conceptualization, along with the relationship between the creating
and reading of cuneiform signs and the creating and reading of symbols
in nature, shaped how ancient religious experts recorded and
interpreted the divine world. As the word kittu is used for both
justice and the regularity of the course of the stars, the role of law
in defining social organization and hierarchies will also be examined,
in particular the role of the king as a divinely appointed ruler in
charge of securing cosmic order through civil order. Such a complex
notion of order calls for a reevaluation of the ancient notion of
nature and redefinition of the hitherto simplistic approach to the
‘deification’ of the forces of nature.
Program
10:00 Beate Pongratz-Leisten, Introduction - The Constitutive Role of
Writing in Social Practice and Epistemology
10:30 Gonzalo Rubio, Ancient Diacritics: Towards a Mesopotamian
Epistemology of Cuneiform Writing
11:30 Coffee Break
11:45 Norman Yoffee, Cuneiform Law: Traditions and Counter-Traditions
12:45 Lunch Break
14:00 Jean-Jacques Glassner, The Invention of Writing, Old Babylonian
Schools and the Semiology of the Diviners
15:00 Coffee Break
15:15 Francesca Rochberg, Where Were the Laws of Nature Before There Was Nature?
16:15 Rita Watson, Writing and Reasoning: Cognitive Perspectives on a
Mesopotamian Text
10:00 Beate Pongratz-Leisten, Introduction - The Constitutive Role of
Writing in Social Practice and Epistemology
10:30 Gonzalo Rubio, Ancient Diacritics: Towards a Mesopotamian
Epistemology of Cuneiform Writing
11:30 Coffee Break
11:45 Norman Yoffee, Cuneiform Law: Traditions and Counter-Traditions
12:45 Lunch Break
14:00 Jean-Jacques Glassner, The Invention of Writing, Old Babylonian
Schools and the Semiology of the Diviners
15:00 Coffee Break
15:15 Francesca Rochberg, Where Were the Laws of Nature Before There Was Nature?
16:15 Rita Watson, Writing and Reasoning: Cognitive Perspectives on a
Mesopotamian Text
Best wishes,
Dr. Arlette DAVID
Department of Archaeology & Ancient Near Eastern Studies
The Hebrew University
Department of Archaeology & Ancient Near Eastern Studies
The Hebrew University
Arlette
Apr 20, 2012, 2:36:39 AM4/20/12
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Dear Group,
Here is the link to a new review by M. Witte in Review of Biblical Literature
4.15.2012: http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/8278_9054.pdf
of
Knight, D. A., 2011. Law, Power, and Justice in Ancient Israel.
Louisville: Westminster John Knox
Shabbat shalom,
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