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1. Incidental Loaning and the Babylonian Context of Second Isaiah: The Case for an Akkadian Borrowing in Isaiah 47:2.

Author

Boyd, Samuel L. and Stackert, Jeffrey

Subjects
*PROPHECY, *LANGUAGE contact, *LEXEME, *TERMS & phrases, BABYLON (Extinct city)
Abstract

The social location of Second Isaiah has been an issue of renewed scholarly debate in the past decade. In this debate, H. G. M. Williamson has called attention to the role of terminology in identifying the probable geographical provenance of this portion of Isaiah. In this article, we examine an instance of language contact in Isa 47:2 and argue that the hapax legomenon שׁבל is a loan from the Akkadian root špl , perhaps the specific lexeme šaplû or šapiltu , referring to the "lower part (of the body)." In doing so, we propose that this term is an incidental loan, namely, a borrowing that evinces general contact with the author's Babylonian surroundings but exhibits no polemic against the empire. That this borrowing was not ideologically motivated is significant, we suggest, for it increases the likelihood that the loan occurred in a Babylonian locale. The argument for Babylonian provenance is buttressed further by parallels observed in Ezek 16, another prophetic text that apparently originated in Babylon and that contains phrasing, literary conventions, and evidence of language contact similar to that in Isa 47. These features, we suggest, are part of an evolving rhetoric within an identifiable segment of exilic and post-exilic biblical prophecy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2022
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3. The musical chorus as antropological place in the political community of Athens in the instauration process of isonomy in Cleisthenes at the end of the sixth century BCE

Author

Araujo, Felipe Nascimento de, Candido, Maria Regina, Gonçalves, Marcia de Almeida, and Andrade, Marta Mega de

Subjects
Ceramics, Performance, Choral, Athens, Cerâmicas, Política, Memory, Vasos, Cultural, Isonomia, Memória, Vases, Theater, Society, CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA [CNPQ], Theatre, Clístenes, Antropologia, Ancient Greece, Teatro, Sociedade, Theatrical, Lugar antropológico, Musical chorus, Atenas, Período arcaico, Politics, Cleisthenes, Grécia Antiga, Isonomy, Anthropological place, Teatral, Anthropology, Sixth century BCE, Coro musical, Coral, Material culture, Archaic period, Cultura material, Sexto século a.C
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Submitted by Boris Flegr (boris@uerj.br) on 2021-01-06T23:53:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Nascimento de Araujo.pdf: 4923194 bytes, checksum: 0cd0fb8f237bb8270983cfff3f2a3e79 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2021-01-06T23:53:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Nascimento de Araujo.pdf: 4923194 bytes, checksum: 0cd0fb8f237bb8270983cfff3f2a3e79 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-06 Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro This present dissertation intends to address the Greek musical chorus as one of the aspects in the political and social creation of the Athenian citizen, which represents an element of social and political integration in the polis in the end of the VI century BC. The expression musical chorus is used to denominate the choral performances of the ancient Hellenes that consisted in an intrinsic union between the singing and the dancing, what build an artistic form from a link of integrated movements up to the singing word, being both inseparable. The selected theoretical instrument is founded in the concept of anthropological place of Marc Augé, whose definition corresponds to a concrete and symbolic construction of the space that occurs a group of collective and individual practices. In this order, the musical chorus corresponds to a social construction, representing the bond that its members have with the identity that is built for them by the present collectivity in the Athenian political community. From this perspective, we materialize the musical chorus as an anthropological place in the material culture of the Attics ceramics, which the symbolic representation of citizens appeared in the iconography of the vases let us identify elements that relate them to the political community of the archaic polis. Pursuant to this, it is important to highlight that our analyses documentation consists in a group of ceramics dated in the end of the VIº century that represents the musical chorus as an anthropological place. Through this theoretical approach, this present work hypothetizes that the musical chorus was formed mainly by members from the aristocratic elite, due to the fact that this social segment has a prominent relevance in the political context of the instauration process of isonomy. Another hypothesis defended in this dissertation refers to the existence of a relation between the musical chorus and the hoplite phalanx, in which the participation of the citizens in chorus of the public festivals worked as a complementary activity to the formation of the soldier peasant citizen that integrated the political community of the Athenian political community. Esta dissertação busca abordar o coro musical grego como um dos aspectos presentes na formação política do cidadão ateniense, constituindo um elemento de integração social e histórica no contexto da pólis do final do século VI a.C. O termo coro musical é utilizado para denominar as performances corais dos antigos helenos que consistiam em uma união intrínseca entre o canto e a dança, construindo uma forma de arte a partir da junção de movimentos integrados à palavra cantada, sendo ambos indissociáveis. O instrumental teórico selecionado se fundamenta no conceito de lugar antropológico de Marc Augé, cuja definição corresponde a uma construção concreta e simbólica do espaço em que ocorre um conjunto de práticas coletivas e individuais. Sendo assim, os coros musicais correspondem a uma construção social, representando o vínculo que seus integrantes possuem com a identidade que lhes é construída pelas coletividades presentes na comunidade política dos atenienses. A partir dessa perspectiva, o coro musical como lugar antropológico se materializa na cultura material das cerâmicas áticas, na qual as representações simbólicas dos cidadãos presentes nas pinturas dos vasos nos permite identificar elementos que os relacionam com a comunidade política da pólis arcaica. Desse modo, é importante destacar que a principal categoria de documentação utilizada nesta dissertação consiste em um conjunto de cerâmicas datadas do final do século VI que representam o coro musical como lugar antropológico. Através desta abordagem teórica, este trabalho formula a hipótese que o coro musical era formado majoritariamente por membros pertencentes à elite aristocrática, devido ao fato deste estrato social possuir destacada relevância no contexto político do processo de instauração da isonomia. Outra hipótese defendida nesta dissertação consiste na existência de uma relação entre o coro musical e falange hoplita, no qual a participação do cidadão nos coros dos festivais públicos funcionava como uma atividade complementar à formação do cidadão camponês soldado que integrava a comunidade política dos atenienses.

Published
2018

4. Sacred sites and religion in early Rome eighth to sixth centuries BC.

Author

de Grummond, Elizabeth Chambless

Subjects
Bc, Centuries, Early, Eighth Century Bce, Religion, Roman Republic, Rome, Sacred Sites, Sixth Century Bce
Abstract

Modern studies of early Roman religion have generally been based upon the works of ancient authors such as Livy, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Varro---authors who wrote about early Rome some five hundred years or more after Rome's earliest centuries. In this dissertation, I focus instead on contemporary archaeological data from the eighth to sixth centuries BC as a source of information about early Roman religion. I discuss the role that archaeological data can play in informing us about ancient religious beliefs and rituals, and I examine archaeological evidence for sacred sites, ancestor worship, and animal sacrifice in early Rome. In addition, I compare the religious practices and beliefs represented by the early Roman archaeological remains with the religious concepts discussed by the later ancient authors in order to determine the extent to which the later texts are relevant to discussions of early Roman religion. I demonstrate that significant changes took place in the Roman sacred landscape in the sixth century BC, and I argue that the later Roman religious terminology can be applied to the time period before the sixth century BC only with extreme caution. Indeed, despite many continuities between Roman religious practices and beliefs of the earlier period and those of the later period, Roman religion was ultimately a reflection of the needs and concerns of the inhabitants of Rome, whose interests changed significantly as Rome grew from a small farming hamlet in the eighth and seventh centuries BC to a cosmopolitan urban center in subsequent centuries.

Published
2005

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