Cultural contact and appropriation in the Axial-age Mediterranean world : : a periplos / / edited by Baruch Halpern, Kenneth S. Sacks, Tyler Edward Kelley.

• Superior document: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume 86
• TeilnehmendeR: Halpern, Baruch,; Sacks, Kenneth S.,; Kelley, Tyler Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; Volume 86.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (325 pages) :; illustrations, tables.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; Zeus and Prometheus: Greek Adaptations of Ancient Near Eastern Myths /; The Theogony and the Enuma Elish: City-State Creation Myths /; Achaemenid Propaganda and Oral Traditions: A Reassessment of Herodotus’ Early Persian Logoi /; Evidence of Peace and War in Persian Period Yehud /; Alphabetic Writing in the Mediterranean World: Transmission and Approriation /; The Name of the Prophet ḥăbaqqûq /; ἀμόργη/Amurca: A Semitic Loanword? /; Twin Peaks: From Mt. Saphon to the Pillars of Herakles /; A Cache of Terracotta Votives from Mendes: Elements of Popular Religion in the Axial Age /; The Origin and Termination of the Foreign Colony-Garrison at Elephantine /; When Chimaeras were Chimaeras /; Medicine and Mathematics in Fifth-century Greece and the Question of Near Eastern Influence /; Who Markets Ideas? Elite and Non-elite Transmission of Culture and Technology /; Bibliography --; Ancient Sources Index --; Modern Authors Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 900419455X
• ISSN: 1566-2055
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Baruch Halpern, Kenneth S. Sacks, Tyler Edward Kelley.

Karl Jaspers dubbed the period, 800-400 BCE, the Axial Age. Axial it was, for out of it emerged the idea of Greek culture, with its influence on Roman and later empires. Jaspers’ Axial Age was the chrysalis of culturally-meaningful modernity. Trade expands intellectual horizons. The economic and political effects permeate such social domains as technology, language and worldview. In the last category, many issues take on an emotional freight – the birth of science, monotheism, philosophy, even theory itself. Cultural Contact and Appropriation in the Axial-Age Mediterranean World: A Periplos , explores adaptation, resistance and reciprocity in Axial-Age Mediterranean exchange (ca. 800-300 BCE). Some essayists expand on an international discussion about myth, to which even the Church Fathers contributed. Others explore questions of how vocabulary is reapplied, or how the alphabet is reapplied, in a new environment. Detailed cases ground participants’ capacity to illustrate both the variety of the disciplinary integuments in which we now speak, one with the other, across disciplines, and the sheer complexity of constructing a workable programme for true collaboration.