King, Sage, Scribe, and Priest: Seleucid Uruk and Jerusalem in Perspective

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Campo DC	Valore
dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_19204
dc.contributor.author	Anthonioz Stephanié
dc.title	King, Sage, Scribe, and Priest: Seleucid Uruk and Jerusalem in Perspective
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The scribal role is fundamental in Antiquity and is often associated with royal power, to the point that one may speak of a mythology of the ‘wise king’. One may think of Kings David and Solomon in the Hebrew Bible or the tradition begun with Šulgi in Mesopotamia. This mythology, which articulates both concepts of kingship and wisdom, seems to gain credence not so much at the peak of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires or at the time of David and Solomon reigns, but at a very late moment in the history of these cultures, when they lacked political independence, especially during the Hellenistic period.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antichistica
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi orientali
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-11-30
dc.dateAccepted	2024-03-04
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-11-07
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-776-0/king-sage-scribe-and-priest-seleucid-uruk-and-jeru/
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8828
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9344
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-777-7
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-776-0
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Hellenistic Jerusalem
dc.subject	Hellenistic Uruk
dc.subject	Kingship
dc.subject	Scribalism
dc.subject	Wisdom

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King, Sage, Scribe, and Priest: Seleucid Uruk and Jerusalem in Perspective

Stephanié Anthonioz HDR, Sorbonne Université, France

abstract

The scribal role is fundamental in Antiquity and is often associated with royal power, to the point that one may speak of a mythology of the ‘wise king’. One may think of Kings David and Solomon in the Hebrew Bible or the tradition begun with Šulgi in Mesopotamia. This mythology, which articulates both concepts of kingship and wisdom, seems to gain credence not so much at the peak of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires or at the time of David and Solomon reigns, but at a very late moment in the history of these cultures, when they lacked political independence, especially during the Hellenistic period.

Pubblicato

30 Novembre 2023

Accettato

04 Marzo 2024

Presentato

07 Novembre 2023

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ISBN (PRINT)

978-88-6969-777-7

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-776-0

Keywords: Hellenistic Uruk • Wisdom • Scribalism • Hellenistic Jerusalem • Kingship

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