{"title":"Babylonian Hermeneutics and Heraclitus","authors":"M. Viano","doi":"10.1086/716031","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"231 Babylonian hermeneutics has been at the center of numerous studies, particularly in recent years.1 Scholars have established that through analogical reasoning, Babylonian hermeneutics developed speculative thought that exploited the potential of the cuneiform writing system to explore new meanings according to phonetic, semantic, and graphic similarities. Analogical hermeneutics was prompted by the polysemic and homophonic nature of the cuneiform writing and was intended as an inquiry into the cuneiform system itself. Babylonian hermeneutics often developed mean-","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":"80 1","pages":"231 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/716031","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHAEOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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231 Babylonian hermeneutics has been at the center of numerous studies, particularly in recent years.1 Scholars have established that through analogical reasoning, Babylonian hermeneutics developed speculative thought that exploited the potential of the cuneiform writing system to explore new meanings according to phonetic, semantic, and graphic similarities. Analogical hermeneutics was prompted by the polysemic and homophonic nature of the cuneiform writing and was intended as an inquiry into the cuneiform system itself. Babylonian hermeneutics often developed mean-
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Devoted to an examination of the civilizations of the Near East, the Journal of Near Eastern Studies has for 125 years published contributions from scholars of international reputation on the archaeology, art, history, languages, literatures, and religions of the Near East. Founded in 1884 as Hebraica, the journal was renamed twice over the course of the following century, each name change reflecting the growth and expansion of the fields covered by the publication. In 1895 it became the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, and in 1942 it received its present designation, the Journal of Near Eastern Studies. From an original emphasis on Old Testament studies in the nineteenth century.
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