Seth L Sanders
Biographic Data
| ID | 3842948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seth L Sanders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seth L |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanders |
| SIGNATURE | SANDERS S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis/Dalhousie University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel: New Identities across Time and Space, By Andrew Tobolowsky
Journal Article The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel: New Identities across Time and Space, By Andrew Tobolowsky Get access The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel: New Identities across Time and Space By Andrew Tobolowsky Cambridge University Press, 2022. 290 pages. $99.99 (hardcover or e-book), $29.99 (paperback). Seth L Sanders Seth L Sanders University of California, DavisDalhousie University [email protected] Search for other works by …
Why Prophecy Became a Biblical Genre. First Isaiah as an Instance of Ancient Near Eastern Text-Building
Scholars now tend to see all ancient Near Eastern prophecy as a subtype of divination, with the main differences being side effects of scribal culture, for example, of how Judean scribes transformed Hebrew prophecy into a literary phenomenon. But while ventriloquizing divine speakers is a widespread phenomenon of religious language, it did not always count as the same type of knowledge or make the same kind of claims to truth, and Israelite and M…
From Adapa to Enoch: Scribal Culture and Religious Vision in Judea and Babylon
Seth L. Sanders offers a history of first-millennium scribes through their heavenly journeys and heroes, treating the visions of ancient Mesopotamian and Judean literature as pragmatic things made by people. He presents each scribal culture as an individual institution via detailed evidence for how visionary figures were used over time. The author also provides the first comprehensive survey of direct evidence for contact between Babylonian, Hebr…
When the Personal Became Political: An Onomastic Perspective on the Rise of Yahwism
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
The Mutation Peculiar to Hebrew Religion: ” Monotheism, Pantheon Reduction, or Royal Adoption of Family Religion
The Appetites of the Dead: West Semitic Linguistic and Ritual Aspects of the Katumuwa Stele
The stele of Katumuwa from eighth-century Zincirli casts new light on the relationship between written texts and ritual practice concerning the afterlife in Iron Age Anatolia and the Levant. It not only presents the most detailed Northwest Semitic funerary inscription known from the period, but the first discovered in an archaeological context providing extensive evidence for its use. This uniqueness is also at the root of the inscription's inter…
Performative Utterances and Divine Language in Ugaritic
Cordon Sanitaire: 44,000,000 Ronald Reagan Fans Can't Be Wrong
A History of the Hebrew Language
A History of the Hebrew Language
Cordon Sanitaire: 44,000,000 Ronald Reagan Fans Can't Be Wrong
Performative Utterances and Divine Language in Ugaritic
The Appetites of the Dead: West Semitic Linguistic and Ritual Aspects of the Katumuwa Stele
The stele of Katumuwa from eighth-century Zincirli casts new light on the relationship between written texts and ritual practice concerning the afterlife in Iron Age Anatolia and the Levant. It not only presents the most detailed Northwest Semitic funerary inscription known from the period, but the first discovered in an archaeological context providing extensive evidence for its use. This uniqueness is also at the root of the inscription's inter…
The Mutation Peculiar to Hebrew Religion: ” Monotheism, Pantheon Reduction, or Royal Adoption of Family Religion
When the Personal Became Political: An Onomastic Perspective on the Rise of Yahwism
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Why Prophecy Became a Biblical Genre. First Isaiah as an Instance of Ancient Near Eastern Text-Building
Scholars now tend to see all ancient Near Eastern prophecy as a subtype of divination, with the main differences being side effects of scribal culture, for example, of how Judean scribes transformed Hebrew prophecy into a literary phenomenon. But while ventriloquizing divine speakers is a widespread phenomenon of religious language, it did not always count as the same type of knowledge or make the same kind of claims to truth, and Israelite and M…
From Adapa to Enoch: Scribal Culture and Religious Vision in Judea and Babylon
Seth L. Sanders offers a history of first-millennium scribes through their heavenly journeys and heroes, treating the visions of ancient Mesopotamian and Judean literature as pragmatic things made by people. He presents each scribal culture as an individual institution via detailed evidence for how visionary figures were used over time. The author also provides the first comprehensive survey of direct evidence for contact between Babylonian, Hebr…
The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel: New Identities across Time and Space, By Andrew Tobolowsky
Journal Article The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel: New Identities across Time and Space, By Andrew Tobolowsky Get access The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel: New Identities across Time and Space By Andrew Tobolowsky Cambridge University Press, 2022. 290 pages. $99.99 (hardcover or e-book), $29.99 (paperback). Seth L Sanders Seth L Sanders University of California, DavisDalhousie University [email protected] Search for other works by …
History (7 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Ancient Near East History (2 works) · Classics (2 works)