Persepolis and Jerusalem
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Persepolis and Jerusalem

Iranian Influence on the Apocalyptic Hermeneutic

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Persepolis and Jerusalem

Iranian Influence on the Apocalyptic Hermeneutic

About this book

Persepolis and Jerusalem reconsiders Iranian influence upon Jewish apocalyptic, and offers grounds upon which such study may proceed. After describing the history of scholarship on the question of Iranian influence and on Jewish apocalyptic, Jason M. Silverman reformulates the methodology for understanding apocalyptic and influence. Two chapters set the discussion firmly in the Achaemenid Empire, describing the sources for Iranian religion, the issues involved in attempting a historical reconstruction, the methodology by which one can date the various texts and ideas, and the potential loci for Iranian-Judaean interaction. The historical context is expanded through media-contextualization, particularly Oral Theory, and critiques the standard text-centric method of current Biblical Scholarship. With this background, pericopes from Ezekiel, Daniel, and 1 Enoch are analyzed for Iranian influence. The study then brings together the contexts and analyses to argue for an 'Apocalyptic Hermeneutic' which relates the phenomena of apocalypticism, apocalypse, and millenarianism-seeing the hermeneutic as a dialectical thread holding them all together as well as apart- and posits this as the best place to understand Iranian influences.

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Information

Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780567173836
eBook ISBN
9780567244468
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Studies

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. List of Figures
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Abbreviations
  6. PROLEGOMENA
  7. Introit
  8. Brief History of Iranian Influence on Judaism
  9. Apocalyptic Studies
  10. Types of Influence and Transmission
  11. Chapter 1. THE IRANIAN SOURCES: RELIGION AND ROYAL IDEOLOGY
  12. Introduction to Iranian Religion in the Achaemenid Period
  13. Evidence from Classical Authors
  14. Religious Situation in Iran
  15. Persian Archaeology and Royal Ideology
  16. Summary
  17. Chapter 2. THE ACHAEMENID CONTEXT
  18. Babylonia
  19. Media and Iranian Lands
  20. Egypt
  21. Palestine
  22. The Royal Road and Royal Mail
  23. Summary
  24. Excursus: Elamites and Iranians in Anšan and Darius’s Coup
  25. General Theological and Sociological Affinities Between Jews and Persians
  26. Chapter 3. THE MEDIA OF INFLUENCE: ORALITY, LITERACY, AND CULTURAL INTERACTION
  27. The Importance of Orality and Its Role in Influence
  28. Importance of Interiorization for the Context of the Apocalypses
  29. Implications for Investigation of Influence
  30. Chapter 4. TEXTUAL ANALYSES: BIBLICAL LITERATURE
  31. Ezekiel 37:1–14 (The Valley of the Bones)
  32. Ezekiel 38–39 (Gog of Magog)
  33. Daniel and the Four Kingdoms
  34. Excursus: On the Watchers
  35. Chapter 5. TEXTUAL ANALYSES: ENOCHIC LITERATURE
  36. The Book of Watchers (1 Enoch 1–36)
  37. Excursus: The Šemihazah Myth
  38. Book of Parables/Book of Similitudes (1 Enoch 37–71)
  39. The Birth of Noah Fragment (1 Enoch 106–107)
  40. Conclusion
  41. Chapter 6. AN APOCALYPTIC HERMENEUTIC
  42. Introit: The Proposal
  43. Hermeneutics: The Re-interpretation and Application of Tradition
  44. The Apocalyptic Hermeneutic’s Blueprint
  45. (Re-)Constructing the Apocalyptic Hermeneutic (With an Eye Towards Iran)
  46. Conclusions
  47. METALEGOMENA
  48. APPENDIX I: SOURCES
  49. APPENDIX II: GLOSSARY OF IRANIAN TERMS
  50. APPENDIX III: ANNOTATED DEFINITIONS OF TERMS
  51. Bibliography
  52. Index of References
  53. Index of Authors