Strategies of Persuasion in Herodotus' Histories and Genesis-Kings : Evoking Reality in Ancient Narratives of a Past /
In Strategies of Persuasion in Herodotus' Histories and Genesis-Kings, Eva Tyrell comparatively analyzes narrative means in two monumental ancient texts about the past. Combining a narratological approach with insights of modern historical theory and biblical scholarship, she investigates patte...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2020
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| Series: | Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ;
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Table of Contents:
- PART 1: Premises and Concepts
- 1 Persuasion and Comparison
- 1 A Comparative Approach
- 2 The Writers' Awareness for Their Craft
- 3 Characteristics of the Sources
- 2 Method, Objectives, Theory
- 1 Do Historical Narratives Employ Specific Narrative Strategies?
- 2 Comparing Texts while Granting Them Different Criteria of Validity and Plausibility
- 3 Strategies of Persuasion as Accessibility Relations
- 4 Excursus: Ancient Greek Philosophy and Rhetorical Theory
- 5 Limitation to Narratorial Discourse
- 6 Additional Premises
- 7 The Constitutive Role of the Recipient
- 8 Usefulness of the Distinction between Narrator and Author
- PART 2: Fundamentals of Narrative Structure in Herodotus' Histories and Genesis-Kings
- 3 Highly Different Modes of Narration and Mediacy
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Mediacy in Gen-Kings and Herodotus
- 3 Two Contrasting Modes of Mediation
- 4 Connecting and Disconnecting Story-World and Discourse-World
- 1 Indication of Temporal Distance between the Discourse-Now and the Past
- 2 The Proportion of Discursive Parts
- 3 The Use of Direct and Indirect Speech
- 4 Characters Indirectly Addressing the Extradiegetic Audience
- 5 Narrative Mode and Source Criticism
- PART 3: Varied Functions of Objects as Means of Persuasion
- Introduction
- 5 Material Remains as Authentication
- 1 Definition of Empirical Evidence
- 2 Overview on the Expressions of Continuity in Herodotus and Gen-Kings
- 3 Shared Characteristics of Empirical Evidence
- 4 Objects Used as Support for Established Knowledge about the Past
- 5 Objects Used as a Source of Information
- 6 The Importance of Material Remains in the Histories Is Relative
- 7 Identifying Function
- 8 Conclusion
- 6 Kinds of Presence-Do Objects Have to Be Accessible to Function as Authentication?
- 1 Border Cases: the Absence and Presence of Continuation into the Present
- 2 The Rhetoric of Lost or Hidden Monuments
- 3 Formal Criteria for Authentication Not Parsed as Evidence If Other Factors Predominate
- 4 Does Vivid Narration Suffice to Persuade of a Past Reality?
- 5 Relics as Witness in a Legal Context
- 6 Texts as Documents and Physical Relics
- 7 Conclusion
- 7 Combinations of Normative Persuasion and Authentication
- 1 Evidence for Supernatural Events as a Claim to Overall Significance
- 2 More Relics Invested with Both Empirical and Normative Plausibility
- 3 Conclusion
- 8 Objects as Visuals and Capturing a Condensed Meaning
- 1 Objects as Visuals for Motivations and Concepts
- 2 Objects as Expression of Condensed Meaning
- 3 Conclusion
- Conclusions
- Appendix
- 1 Selected Material Remains in the Biblical Account of a Past
- 2 Selected Material Remains in Herodotus' Histories.
