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Soden, Wolfram von
(713 words)
Dt. Assyriologe. Geb. am 19. 6. 1908 in Berlin, gest. am 6. 10. 1996 in Münster. Schulbesuch in Berlin und Marburg; Studium der Assyriologie und semitischer Sprachen in Marburg, München und Leipzig, dort 1931 Prom.; 1933 Habil. Göttingen. Ab 1934 Dozent, ab 1936 ao.Prof. ebda.; 1940 o.Prof. Berlin, Lehrtätigkeit wegen Militärdienst (zuletzt als Leutnant u. a. als Dolmetscher) jedoch nicht angetreten. 1945 Lehrauftrag in Göttingen; 1954 o.Prof. Assyriologie in Wien; 1961 o.Prof. in Münster für Al…
Soden, Wolfram von
(797 words)
German Assyriologist. Born Berlin 19. 6. 1908, died Münster 6. 10. 1996. School in Berlin and Marburg; studied Assyriology and¶ Semitic languages at Marburg, Munich and Leipzig. Doctorate 1931 Leipzig. 1933 habil. Göttingen. From 1934 lecturer, from 1936 prof. ext. at Göttingen. 1940 prof. ord. in Berlin, but did not take up his teaching post because of war service (ending as a Lieutenant and interpreter). 1945 teaching at Göttingen; 1954 prof. ord. in Assyriology at Vienna. 1961 prof. ord. at Münster in …
Mesopotamia
(6,968 words)
[German Version] I. Geography – II. History – III. Society – IV. Religion – V. Literature and Art
I. Geography The name Mesopotamia, Greek “(land) bewteen the rivers (i.e. Euphrates and Tigris),” originally only …
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Religion Past and Present
Berosus
(251 words)
[German Version] (340–270 bce). The spelling Βηρωσσος is preferable to Βηρῶσος, since the Akkadian form behind the name is
Bēl-rēʿ-šu, “Bēl is his shepherd.” Berosus was a priest of Esagila, the temple of Bēl/Marduk in Babylon. Some years before his death, he is reported to have moved to Cos, where he founded a school for astronomers. Around 281, he wrote (in Greek) his
Babyloniaca, in which he recorded creation (book 1) and the history of the kings before and after the Flood down to the Persian period…
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Religion Past and Present
Historiography
(5,830 words)
[German Version] I. Ancient Near East – II. Greece – III. Rome – IV. The Bible – V. Christianity – VI. Judaism
I. Ancient Near East Historiography in the classic sense, with a reflective account of historical linkages, developed rudimentarily at best in the cuneiform cultures of the ancient Near East in Hittite and Neo-Assyrian annals and the introductions to treaties; even these documents were usually written to justify the political actions. Around the middle of the 3rd millennium bce, however, there appeared an immense number of all sorts of texts containing more or less detailed historical narratives. Despite their sometimes questionable truth, these documents serve as a source of modern historiography. The most important, often found on steles or foundation documents, are the ¶ commemorative or self-descriptive inscriptions of rulers recounting in chronological sequence their military exploits or building projects. In many cases, supplementary details appear in extensive official archives containing administrative documents and letters, including some addressed to various gods. The lists typical of the ancient Near East comprise the names of kings, years, or eponyms, either without commentary or expanded with brief additions in the manner of a chronicle. The so-called astronomical diaries from the late period of Babylon record historical events that can be dated to the day. Far less reliable are the historical allusions in the pseudepigraphic “autobiographies” of individual rulers and in epics, as well as in oracles, omen collections, or prophecies, which attempt to predict future successes or disasters against the background of laws presumed to govern all sequences of events. Typical of the ancient Near Eastern sources are the equal weight they give to myths and actual events and their frequent recourse to oral traditions. The Sumerian king list (and even Berosus), for example, dominated by the idea of a single earthly kingship installed by the gods, lists kings from before the deluge along with historical rulers from the time before the emergence of written records and contemporary rulers of the 2nd millennium in a single sequence, clearly thought to b…
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Religion Past and Present
Metre
(8,752 words)
[German version] I. Preliminary remark Originally sung poetry, often accompanied by dance, metric literature was obviously subject to other formative conditions than poetry intended from the outset for spoken presentation or for reading. Texts of such kinds still show traces of their earlier sound form ( Music). Accordingly the form ranged from simple ‘melodic lines of sound’, as can be presumed for the ancient Orient and Israel (
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Brill’s New Pauly
Metrik
(7,864 words)
[English version] I. Vorbemerkung Ursprünglich gesungene Poesie, oft mit Tanz verbunden, unterlag metrische Lit. offenbar anderen Bedingungen der Formbildung als von vornherein zum Sprechvortrag oder zum Lesen bestimmte Dichtung. Derartige Texte lassen Spuren ihrer einstigen Klanggestalt noch erkennen. Der Dichtersänger verband und gliederte die Worte im sinnfälligen, mitbestimmenden musikalischen Medium (Musik). Entsprechend reichte die Formbildung von einfachen “melodischen Klangzeilen”, wie sie für den Alten Orient und Israel vorauszusetzen sind (
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Der Neue Pauly