Uses and Misuses of Ancient Mediterranean Sources

Chiara Meccariello (Herausgegeben von) studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore and at the University of Pisa, Italy; 2013 PhD in Classics; 2013-14 postdoctoral position at the Universities of Vienna, 2014-17 in Oxford; 2017-20 member of the Collaborative Research Centre 1136 “Education and Religion” at the Georg-August University of Göttingen; currently Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge.Jennifer Singletary (Herausgegeben von) PhD from Brown University; 2017-19 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Georg-August University of Göttingen in the Collaborative Research Centre 1136; Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Montana and Wofford College; 2017 Research Fellowship in Jewish Studies and the Hebrew Bible from the Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University; 2018 Regional Scholar Award from the Society of Biblical Literature; currently Assistant Research Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at the Pennsylvania State University.

• Chiara Meccariello/Jennifer Singletary: IntroductionSection A. Preserving, Archiving, and Detecting SourcesTonio Mitto/Marie Young: In Search of Former Kings: Copying Sîn-kāšid's and Sîn-iddinam's Inscriptions in the Neo- and Late Babylonian Periods - Laura Carlson Hasler: Citation, Collection, and the Protection of Memory in 2 Maccabees - Georgios Vassiliades: Livy and the Legends of Rome's Foundation: A "Double Standard" Approach - Nereida Villagra: Source Citations in the Scholia to the Odyssey: References, Subscriptions, and the Mythographus Homericus - So Miyagawa/Heike Behlmer: Quotative Index Phrases in Shenoute's Canon 6: A Case Study of Quotations from the PsalmsSection B. Authority, Divinity, and PowerCarlos Gracia Zamacona: Divine Words in the Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts (c. 2000-1500 BCE) - Gina Konstantopoulos: "These Are of the Mouth of Ea": The Divine Origin of Incantations and the Legitimation of the Exorcist's Craft - Szilvia Jáka-Sövegjártó: Source Texts as Authority Constructions: A Conceptual Approach to the Old Babylonian Literary Discourse - Ilaria Andolfi: A Writing Hard to Wash Out: A Reassessment of the Story about Acusilaus and his Bronze Tablets - Francesca Boldrer: Sacra... canam: Propertius's Aetiological-Religious Poetry and His Use of SourcesSection C. Manipulating and Adapting Sources: Ancient to ModernMichael Chen: Adapting Ancient Egyptian Healing Spells onto Late Period Statuary - David P. Wright: The Covenant Code Narrative: Neo-Assyrian Influences and Context - Mathias Winkler: The Book of Proverbs: Sources Become Invisible - Przemysław Piwowarczyk: Using the Scriptures in Documentary Letters from Western Thebes - Silvia Gabrieli: Enuma Elish: A Glorious Past and a Curious Present - Dustin Nash: Assyriology and the Allosaurus: Sources, Symbols, and Memory at the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter