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 patt...

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Main Author: Tyrell, Eva (Author)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; 195.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004407367.

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505 0 |a Acknowledgements -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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