Programme
This workshop aims to advance the comparative exploration of three corpora of ancient historiography, 1-2 Chronicles, Babylonian Chronicles, and Herodotus, and to this end will pay significant attention to the following matters: the underlying assumptions, basic world- shaping conceptualizations on which these works were grounded; the generative grammars at work in these historiographical texts; the interrelation between genre, social location, and historical contingency. Whereas biblical scholarship is first and foremost bent on comparing ancient Israelite historiography with Greek historiography, this workshop aims to highlight the need to bring into the comparative project near eastern historiographical traditions, and in particular the Babylonian chronicles, and to explore the potential implications and outcomes of doing so. This workshop is proposed with a view to exploring the viability and interest in the topic.
Keywords:
Ancient Historiography, Comparative Historiography, Babylonian Chronicles, Herodotus, 1-2 Chronicles