Parallels and Connections Between
the Hellenic, Semitic, and Anatolian Cultures


by
K. C. Hanson
Fortress Press
P.O. Box 1209
Minneapolis, MN 55440-1209
© 1998



Introduction





Organization


1

1970—2004


2

1940—1969


3

1900—1939


4

1658—1899







   1970—2004   


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  • "Divine Kingship, Civic Institutions, and Imperial Rule," 49-80
  • "The Mediterranean Seer and the Shaman," 81-117
  • "The Shifting Roles of Women," 119-46
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  • "Literary Contexts of the Common Hebrew-Greek Vocabulary," 62-90
  • "Excursus A: The Nine Spices of Canticles," 91-97
  • "Excursus B: The God of Kasios and His Adversary," 98-105
  • "cosmological Myth and the Tuna of Gibraltar," 106-33
  • "The Mediterranean Vocabulary of the Vine," 134-58
  • "Peace Symbolism in Ancient Military Vocabulary," 159-80
  • "Excursus C: Phineas and Phineus," 181-82
  • "The Sacrificial Cult and Its Critique," 183-218
  • "Excursus D: 'Lord of the Flies,'" 219-21
  • "The Shifting Roles of Women," 222-52
  • "Treaty and Loyalty-Oaths," 253-89
  • "Proverb-Book and Gold-Economy," 290-99
  • "Excursus E: Motifs, Comparisons, Proverbs," 309-26
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  • "Divine Kingship, Civic Institutions, Imperial Rule," 81-118
  • "Excursus F: Hamilcar Barca and Hannibal in Punic," 119-29
  • "Excursus G: The Cairn and the Pillar," 130-34
  • "Archery and Its Symbolism," 135-53
  • "The Mediterranean Seer and Shamanism," 154-98
  • "Sacred Space and Time in Israel and Italy," 199-234
  • "The Ark of the Covenant and the Temple of Janus," 235-72
  • "Levels of Connection Between Greek and Hebrew," 273-323
Brown, John Pairman. Israel and Hellas. Volume III: The Legacy of Iranian Imperialism and the Individual. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 299. Berlin: deGruyter, 2001.
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  • "Blessedness in Better Lands," 35-64
  • "Excursus H: Mesene and the Caravan Trade," 65-71
  • "Iranian Imperialism and the Rebel Victim," 72-112
  • "Excursus I: The Temple Police at Jerusalem," 113-18
  • "Paradise and the Forest of Lebanon," 119-51
  • "Complementarity of Israel and Hellas," 152-202
  • "The Foreign Vocabulary of Jesus' Aramaic," 203-60
  • "Excursus J: Vernacular Words in Paul," 261-69
  • "From Particularity to Universalism," 274-314
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Considine, P. "Moses and Odysseus." Proceedings of the African Classical Association 20 (1967) 23-28.

Considine, P. "The Theme of Divine Wrath in Ancient East Mediterranean Literature." Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 8 (1969) 85-159.

Driver, G. R. "Review of C. H. Gordon, Before the Bible." Journal of Semitic Studies 8 (1963) 277-82.

Dunbabin, T. J. The Greeks and Their Eastern Neighbors: Studies in the Relations between Greece and the Countries of the Near East in the 8th and 7th Centuries B.C. JHS Supplementary Papers 8. London: Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1957. [Reprinted 1979].

Ehrich, Robert W. "Culture Area and Culture History in the Mediterranean and Middle East." In The Aegean and the Near East: Studies Presented to Hetty Goldman on the Occasion of Her Seventy-fifth Birthday, edited by S. S. Weinberg, 1-21. Locust Valley, N.Y.: Augustin, 1956.

Eissfeldt, Otto. "Phönikische und griechische Kosmogonie." In Éléments Orientaux dans la Religion Grecque Ancienne, 1-15. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1960.

Frenkian, Aram M. "L'épopé de Gilgames et les poèmes homériques." Studia et Acta Orientalia 2 (1960) 89-105.

Friedrich, J. "Angst und Schrecken als niedere Gottheiten bei Griechen und Hethitern." Archiv für Orientforschung 17 (1954/55) 148.

Germaine, Gabriel. Genèse de L'Odyssée: Le fantastique et le sacré. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1954.

Goldman, Bernard. "The Asiatic Ancestry of the Greek Gorgon." Berytus 14 (1961) 1-23.

Gordon, Cyrus H. The Ancient Near East. 3d ed. New York: Norton, 1965. [earlier eds. 1953, 1958].

Gordon, Cyrus H. Common Backgrounds of the Greek and Hebrew Literatures. New York: Norton, 1965.

Gordon, Cyrus H. "The Dreros Bilingual." Journal of Semitic Studies 8 (1963) 76-79.

Gordon, Cyrus H. "Homer and Bible: The Origin and Character of East Mediterranean Literature." Hebrew Union College Annual 26 (1955) 43-108.

Gordon, Cyrus H. "Homer, Caphtor and Canaan." Jahrbuch für Kleinasiatische Forschung 3 (1955) 139-46.

Gordon, Cyrus H. "Minoan Linear A." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 17 (1958) 245-55.

Gordon, Cyrus H. Ugarit and Minoan Crete: The Bearing of Their Texts on the Origins of Western Culture. New York: Norton, 1966.

Gordon, Cyrus H. "Ugarit as Link Between Greek and Hebrew Literatures." RSO 29 (1954) 161-69.

Gordon, Cyrus H. "Ugaritic Guilds and Homeric dêmioergoi." In The Aegean and the Near East: Studies Presented to Hetty Goldman on the Occasion of Her Seventy-fifth Birthday, edited by S. S. Weinberg, 136-43. Locust Valley, N.Y.: Augustin, 1956.

Gordon, Cyrus H. "Vergil and the Near East." Ugaritica 6:267-88. Paris: Mission Archeologique de Ras Shamra, 1969.

Grace, Virginia R. "The Canaanite Jar." In The Aegean and the Near East: Studies Presented to Hetty Goldman on the Occasion of Her Seventy-fifth Birthday, edited by S. S. Weinberg, 80-109. Locust Valley, N.Y.: Augustin, 1956.

Güterbock, Hans Gustav. "The Hittite Version of the Hurrian Kumarbi Myths: Oriental Forerunners of Hesiod." American Journal of Archaeology 52 (1948) 123-34.

Haag, H. "Homer und das Alte Testament." Theologische Quartelschrift 141 (1961) 1-24.

Haag, H. Homer, Ugarit und das Alte Testament. Einseideln: Benziger, 1962.

Haag, H. "Der gegenwärtige Stand der Erforschung der Beziehungen zwischen Homer und dem Alten Testament: Ein Kurzbericht." JVEG 19 (1965/66) 508-18.

Harmatta, J. "Zu den kleinasiatischen Beziehungen der griechischen Mythologie." Acta Antiqua Hungary 16 (1968) 57-76.

Herter, Hans. "Griechenland und Orient." Archeion Koinoniologias kai Ethikes 10 (1967/68) 49-60.

Herter, Hans. "Die Ursprünge des Aphroditekultes." In Éléments Orientaux dans la Religion Grecque Ancienne, 61-76. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1960.

Heubeck, A. "Mythologische Vorstellungen des Alten Orients im archaischen Griechentum." Gymnasium 62 (1955) 508-25.

Hoffner, Harry A. "A Hittite Analog to the David and Goliath Contest of Champions?" Catholic Biblical Quarterly 30 (1968) 220-25.

Huxley, George C. "Hittites in Homer." La parola del passato 14 (1959) 282.

Kantor, H. "The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millenium." American Journal of Archaeology 51 (1947) 3-103.

Lambert, Wilfred G. and Peter Walcot. "A New Babylonian Theogony and Hesiod." Kadmos 4 (1965) 64-72.

Laroche, Emmanuel. "Koubaba, déese anatolienne, et le problème des origines de Cybèle." In Éléments Orientaux dans la Religion Grecque Ancienne, 113-28. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1960.

Lesky, A. "Hethitische Texte und griechischer Mythos." Anzeiger der Österreichischer Akademie der Wissenschaften 87 (1950) 137-60.

Lesky, A. "Review of C. H. Gordon, 'Homer and Bible.'" Gnomon 29 (1957) 321-25.

Lord, Albert B. The Singer of Tales. Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature 24. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1960.

Marinatos, S. "The Giant Warrior in the Early Iron Age." Archaiologika Analekta ex Athenon 1 (1968) 276-??.

Masson, Emilia. Cyprominoica: Repertoires, documents de Ras Shamra Essais d'interpretation. Studies in Mediteranean Archaeology, 31 pt. 2. Göteborg: Aströms, 1974.

Masson, Emilia. Recherches sur les plus anciens emprunts sémitiques en grec. Études et commentaires 67. Paris: Klincksieck, 1967.

Masson, Olivier. "Cultes indigènes, cultes grecs et cultes orientaux à Chypre." In Él&ecute;ments Orientaux dans la Religion Grecque Ancienne, 129-42. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1960.

Mayer, M. L. "Gli imprestiti semitici in greco." RIL 94 (1960) 311-51.

Mazzarino, Santo. Fra Oriente e Ocidente: Ricerche di Storia Greca Arcaica. Il Pensiero Storica. Florence: "La Nuova Italia," 1947.

Merlat, Pierre. "Orient, Grèce, Rome, un exemple de syncrétisme? Les 'castores' dolichéniens." In Éléments Orientaux dans la Religion Grecque Ancienne, 77-94. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1960.

Oppenheim, A. L. "The Golden Garments of the Gods." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 8 (1949) 172-93.

Oppenheim, A. L. "Essay on Overland Trade in the First Millennium B.C." Journal of Cuneiform Studies 21/22 (1967/69) 236-54.

Petriconi, H. "Das Gilgamesch-Epos als vorbild der Ilias." In Linguistic and Literary Studies in Honor of Helmut A. Hatzfeld, edited by A. S. Crisafulli, 329-49. Washington, D.C.: Catholic Univ. of America Press, 1964.

Priest, John F. "Orkia in the Iliad and Consideration of a Recent Theory." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 23 (1964) 48-56.

Riis, P. J. "Plaquettes syriennes d'Astarté dans des milieux grecs." Mélanges de l'université Saint Joseph 37 (1960) 193-98.

Schaeffer, C. F. A. "Enkomi." American Journal of Archaeology 52 (1948) 165-77 + Plates IV-VII.

Scheibner, G. "Klassische Dichtung im Alten Orient und in der Antike. Gilgamesch-Epos und Homer." In Das Problem der Klassik im Alten Orient und in der Antike, 124-40. Dissertationes Berolinses 3. Berlin: Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institut für griechisch-römische Altertumskunde, 1967.

Schwabl, Hans. "Die griechischen Theogonien und der Orient." In Éléments Orientaux dans la Religion Grecque Ancienne, 39-56. O. Eissfeldt, ed. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1960.

Steiner, G. "Der Sukzessionsmythos in Hesiods Theogonie und ihren orientalischen Parallelen." Ph.D. Dissertation, Heidelberg University, 1959. [Or Hamburg 1958?]

Stella, Luigia Achillea. Il Poema di Ulisse. Biblioteca di Cultura 47. Florence: Nuova Italia, 1955.

Stubbings, F. H. Mycenaean Pottery From the Levant. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1951.

Vian, Francis. "Le mythe de Typhée et le problème de ses origines orientales." In Éléments Orientaux dans la Religion Grecque Ancienne, 17-37. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1960.

Virolleaud, Charles. "La légende de Gilgamesh et l'Odyssée." Bulletin de la Societe National des Antiquaires de France (1939/40) 134-36.

Walcot, Peter. "The Comparative Study of Ugaritic and Greek Literature." Ugarit-Forschungen 1 (1969) 111-18.

Walcot, Peter. Hesiod and the Near East. Cardiff: Univ. of Wales Press, 1966.

Ward, William A., editor. The Role of the Phoenicians in the Interaction of Mediterranean Civilizations: Papers Presented to the Archaeological Symposium at the American University of Beirut, March 1967. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1968.

Webster, T. B. L. "Homer and Eastern Poetry." Minos 4 (1956) 104-16.

Webster, T. B. L. From Mycenae to Homer. 2d ed. London: Methuen, 1964. [1st ed. 1958]

Wendel, Carl. Die griechisch-römische Buchbeschreibung verglichen mit der des Vorderen Orients. Hallische Monographien 3. Halle: Niemeyer, 1949.

West, M. L. Hesiod Theogony. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1966.

West, M. L. "Near Eastern Material in Hellenistic and Roman Literature." Harvard Studies in Philology 73 (1969) 113-34.

Wikander, Stig. "Héraclite et l'Iran." In Éléments Orientaux dans la Religion Grecque Ancienne, 57-59. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1960.

Williams, R. J. "The Literary History of a Mesopotamian Fable." Phoenix 10 (1956) 70-77.

Winstedt, R. O. "A Literary Device Common to Homer and the East." Journal of the Asiatic Society (1941) 199-201.

Wolff, H. N. "Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Heroic Life." Journal of the American Oriental Society 89 (1969) 392-98.

Yamauchi, Edwin M. Greece and Babylon: Early Contacts Between the Aegean and the Near East. Baker Studies in Biblical Archaeology. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1967.



  
1900—1939   

Assmann, Ernst. Das Floss der Odyssee, sein Bau und sein phoinikischer Ursprung. Berlin: Pilz, 1904.

Bérard, Victor. Les Phéniciens et l'Odyssée. 2 vols. Paris: Armand Colin, 1902-3.

Boll, F., and K. Bezold. "Eine neue babylonisch-griechische Parallele." In Aufsätze zur Kultur- und Sprachgeschichte vornehmlich des Orients: Ernst Kuhn zum 70. Geburtstage am 7. Februar 1916 gewidmet von Freunden und Schülern, München 1916. Breslau: Marcus, 1916.

Diels, Hermann. "Altorientalische Fabeln in griechischem Gewande." Internationale Wochenschrift 4 (1910) 993-1002.

Dobschütz, E. von. "Homer und die Bibel." NJbb 1 (1925) 331-46.

Farnell, Lewis Richard. Greece and Babylon: A Comparative Sketch of Mesopotamian, Anatolian and Hellenic Religions. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1911.

Fries, C. "Babylonische und griechische Mythologie." Njbb 9 (1903) 689-707.

Hogarth, D. G. Ionia and the East: Six Lectures. Oxford: Clarendon, 1909.

Hunger, J. Babylonische Tieromina nebst griechisch-römischen Parallelen. Mitteilungen der Vorderasiatischen Gesellschaft, 3. Berlin: Peiser, 1909.

Jensen, P. "Das Gilgames-Epos und Homer." Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 16 (1902) 125-34.

Jensen, P. Gilgamesch-Epos, jüdische Nationalsagen, Ilias und Homer. Leipzig: Eduard Pfeiffer, 1924.

Karo, G. "Orient und Hellas in archäischer Zeit." Mitteilungen des deutschen archäologischen Instituts (Athens) 45 (1920) 106-56.

Momigliano, A. D. "Su una battaglia tra Assiri e Greci." Athenaeum 12 (1934) 412-16.

Müller, Valentin. Frühe Plastik in Griechenland und Vorderasien. Augsburg: Filser, 1929.

Poulsen, Frederik. Der Orient und die frühgriechische Kunst. Leipzig: Teubner, 1912.

Reitzenstein, R. "Altgriechische Theologie und ihre Quellen." Vorträge der Bibliothek Warburg IV, 1-19. Leipzig, 1924/25.

Stürmer, Franz. "Noch einmal Homer und Bibel." Gymnasium 24 (1906) 361-62.

Ungnad, A. Gilgamesch-Epos und Odyssee. Kulturfragen 4/5. Breslau: Ungnad, 1923.

Wirth, Hermann. Homer und Babylon. Freiburg: Herder, 1921.




  
1658—1899   

Benloew, Louis. Les Sémites à Ilion. La vérité sur la guerre de Troie. Paris: Frank/Herold, 1863.

Bogan, Zachary. Homerus, 'Ebraizon sive comparatio Homeri cum scriptoribus sacris quoad normam loquendi. Oxford: Hall, 1658.

Burr, A. W. "The Theophanies of Homer and the Bible." Bibliotheca Sacra 44 (1887) 522-49.

Gruppe, O. Die griechischen Culte und Mythen in ihren Beziehungen zu den orientalischen Religionen. Leipzig: Teubner, 1887.

Koester, Friedrich Burchard. Erläuterungen der heiligen Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments aus den Klassikern, besonders aus Homer. Kiel: Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1833.

Krenkel, M. "Biblische Parallelen zu Homerus." Jahrbücher für classische Philologie 137 (1888) 15-44.

Ohnefalsch-Richter, Max Hermann. Kypros, the Bible and Homer. 2 vols. London: Asher, 1893.





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