The Legacy of Iranian Imperialism and the Individual: With Cumulative Indexes to Vols. I-III (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fr die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 299)

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world. Author’s Preface 5 Abbreviations and Bibliography (Cumulative) 15 Errata to Vols. I & II 31 Chapter 18: The Double Laws of Human Nature 33 18.1 Gravity and grace 33 18.2 Friend and enemy 40 18.3 Recompense of injuries and benefits 54 Chapter 19: Blessedness in Better Lands 67 19.1 The Beatitude as literary form 67 19.2 The future life and the Egyptians 72 19.3 The grammatical status of the future 74 19.4 The meadow of lilies 76 19.5 A mountain in the north 79 19.6 The ends of the earth 81 19.7 The jewelled world 86 19.8 The garden with four rivers 87 19.9 The starry robe of the cosmos 89 19.10 Conditions for entrance 91 19.11 The separable soul and its image, the pearl 93 Chapter 20: Iranian Imperialism and the Rebel Victim 104 20.1 The continuity of Iranian imperialism 106 20.2 The rebel victim 109 20.3 Iranian imperial offices 114 20.4 Symbolic attributes of the Iranian monarch 127 20.5 Imperial sanctions 132 20.6 The rebel victim as victor 142 Chapter 21: Paradise and the Forest of Lebanon 151 21.1 Columbus and the Earthly Paradise 151 21.2 The satrapal hunting parks 153 21.3 Original Iranian texts 159 21.4 Gilgamesh and the forest of Lebanon 161 21.5 Original forests of the Mediterranean 164 21.6 Bureaucratic control of logging 167 21.7 The garden as private paradise 168 21.8 The restoration of Eden 170 21.9 The vision of Ephrem Syrus 172 21.10 Deforestation in the Lebanon and the Mediterranean 176 21.11 Later history of Paradise 178 Chapter 22: Complementarity of Israel and Hellas 184 22.1 Complementarity in style of dialogue 186 22.2 Israel as an old society, Hellas as a young one 187 22.3 Insiders and outsiders of the ancient Near East 190 22.4 Transcendence or immanence of the divine world 195 22.5 Tragedy and survival 198 22.6 Criteria of membership: lineage vs. language 200 22.7 Confluence in the New Testament 205 22.8 Literary canons, closed and open 212 22.9 Translatability of Hebrew and Greek texts 221 22.10 Reciprocal takeover of attributes 228 22.11 Faith and reason 230 Chapter 23: The Foreign Vocabulary of Jesus’ Aramaic 235 23.1 The sayings of Jesus as Aramaic 237 23.2 Akkadian in the Aramaic of the sayings 253 23.3 Iranian in the Aramaic of the sayings 265 23.4 Greek loanwords in the Aramaic of the sayings 273 23.5 Latinisms in the Aramaic of the sayings 283 23.6 A lingua franca 293 Chapter 24: From Particularity to Universalism 306 24.1 The physical environment 310 24.2 The external human environment 318 24.3 Internal organization 324 24.4 Freedom and particularity 329 24.5 Empire and universalism 337 24.6 The individual and the enigma of death 343 Appendix 3: Additions and Corrections to Vols. I–III 347 Appendix 4: Mishna texts from the Kaufmann codex 367 Cumulative Indexes 379 Index 1: Words Discussed 380 1.1 West-Semitic 380 1.2 Greek 391 1.3 Latin 403 1.4 Other languages 407 Index 2: Texts Cited 417 2.1 Biblical 417 2.2 West-Semitic 445 2.3 Greek 453 2.4 Latin 484 2.5 Treaties 496 2.6 Other languages 496 Index 3: Objects Described 502 Index 4: Modern Scholars 507 Index 5: Proper Names 516 Index 6: Topics 557 In der Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fr die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) erscheinen Arbeiten zu smtlichen Gebieten der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Im Zentrum steht die Hebrische Bibel, ihr Vor- und Nachleben im antiken Judentum sowie ihre vielfache Verzweigung in die benachbarten Kulturen der altorientalischen und hellenistisch-rmischen Welt. Die BZAW akzeptiert Manuskriptvorschlge, die einen innovativen und signifikanten Beitrag zu Erforschung des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt leisten, sich intensiv mit der bestehenden Forschungsliteratur auseinandersetzen, stringent aufgebaut und flssig geschrieben sind. [v. 1. Without Special Title] -- V. 2. Sacred Institutions With Roman Counterparts -- V. 3. The Legacy Of Iranian Imperialism And The Individual. With Cumulative Indexes To Vols. 1-3. John Pairman Brown. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. This text compares Hebrew, Greek and Latin texts that describe sacred institutions.