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"I Am Unable to Do My Job" : = Literary Depictions of the Scribal Profession in the Story of Ahiqar and Jeremiah 36.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"I Am Unable to Do My Job" :/
Reminder of title:	Literary Depictions of the Scribal Profession in the Story of Ahiqar and Jeremiah 36.
Author:	Moore, James D.
Description:	1 online resource (345 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International79-05A.
Subject:	Biblical studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10599735click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355435580

"I Am Unable to Do My Job" : = Literary Depictions of the Scribal Profession in the Story of Ahiqar and Jeremiah 36.
Moore, James D.

"I Am Unable to Do My Job" :Literary Depictions of the Scribal Profession in the Story of Ahiqar and Jeremiah 36. - 1 online resource (345 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brandeis University, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

With few exceptions, biblical and ancient Near Eastern scholars working on ancient scribal culture focus on either the mechanics of textual production, levels and types of literacy, or early educational curricula and practices. However, this dissertation contends that the study of ancient scribal culture can include the conditions and ethos of professional scribal employment. Unfortunately, little data survive from ancient Aramaic and Hebrew scribes that explicitly address social conditions of their employment and the scribal experience. Among the scant data are two narratives, the Aramaic story of Ahiqar and the tale of the prophet Jeremiah and the scribe Baruch in Jeremiah 36, both of which depict professional scribal characters and their interactions. While, it cannot be assumed, a priori, that such ancient narratives describe historical reality, perspectives from the sociology of literature and narratology show that these two narratives can include reliable reflections of social reality among their artistic or ideological elements. This dissertation argues that within the literary tales of Ahiqar and Jeremiah 36 are found realistic depictions of the ancient Aramaic and Hebrew scribal experience. This dissertation relies on standard and more recent models of comparative approaches to literature. It studies Ahiqar and Jer 36 independently by using the tools of text-critical, philological, literary, and historical research to probe each source for its allusions to the scribal profession. After studying each source, this work then looks at the two sources in comparative perspective using comparative and narratological approaches to assess how their literary similarities and differences strengthen socio-historical observations about the depictions of the scribal profession. This study argues that disguised in the royal propagandistic message of Ahiqar is an Aramaic critique on the social practices of Akkadian scribal culture. Unlike the complex literary messages found in Ahiqar, Jer 36 uses loci of scribal activity, expected scribal interactions, and the mechanics of the scribal craft to construct an overtly subversive piece of literature. Although neither text is read as a historical account, both contain realistic depictions of the mid-first millennium scribal experience of those serving in royal courts. This study includes a newly collated edition of the narrative portions of the Aramaic Ahiqar fragments from Elephantine along with an introduction to the Aramaic and Akkadian literary tradition from which the composition emerged.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355435580Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122820
Biblical studies.
Subjects--Index Terms:

AhiqarIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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