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Samuel L. Boyd Boyd
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1517 Media
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June 2023
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Publisher
1517 Media
Published
June 2023
£26.94
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Babel
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In Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy, Samuel L. Boyd offers a new reading of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11:1-9. Using recent insights on the rhetoric of Neo-Assyrian politics and its ideology of governance as well as advances in biblical studies, Boyd shows how the Tower of Babel was not originally about a tower, Babylon, or the advent of multilingualism, at least in the earliest phases of the history and literary context of the story. Rather, the narrative was a critique against the Assyrian empire using themes of human overreach found in many places in Genesis 1-11.
Boyd clarifies how idioms of Assyrian governance could have found their way into the biblical text, and how the Hebrew of Genesis 11:1-9 itself leads to a different translation of the passage than found in versions of the Bible, one that does not involve language. This new reading sheds light on how the story became about language. Boyd argues that this new understanding of Babel also illuminates aspects of the call of Abram when the Tower of Babel is interpreted as a story about something other than the origin of multilingualism. Finally, he frames the historical-critical research on the biblical passage and its reception in ancient Jewish, Christian, and Islamic sources with the uses of the Tower of Babel in modern politics of language and nationalism. He demonstrates how and why Genesis 11:1-9 has become so useful, in often detrimental ways, to the modern nation-state. Boyd explores this intellectual history of the passage into current events in the twenty-first century and offers perspectives on how a new reading of the Tower of Babel can speak to the current cultural and political moment and offer correctives on the uses and abuses of the Bible in the public sphere.
Author
Samuel L. Boyd Boyd
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
1517 Media
Published
June 2023
Weight
318g
Dimensions
153 x 229 x 26 mm
ISBN
9781506480671
ISBN-10
1506480675
Eden Code
5698612
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Author/Creator: Samuel L. Boyd Boyd
ISBN: 9781506480671
Publisher: 1517 Media
Release Date: June 2023
Weight: 318g
Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 26 mm
Eden Code: 5698612