@Book{1700662163,
author="Tyrell, Eva",
title="Strategies of persuasion in Herodotus' ``Histories'' and Genesis-Kings: evoking reality in ancient narratives of a past",
series="Journal for the study of Judaism volume 195",
year="2020",
publisher="Brill",
address="Leiden",
keywords="Persuasion (Rhetoric); History; Rhetoric, Ancient",
abstract="Acknowledgements -- PART 1: Premises and Concepts -- 1 Persuasion and Comparison -- 1 A Comparative Approach -- 2 The Writers' Awareness for Their Craft -- 3 Characteristics of the Sources -- 2 Method, Objectives, Theory -- 1 Do Historical Narratives Employ Specific Narrative Strategies? -- 2 Comparing Texts while Granting Them Different Criteria of Validity and Plausibility -- 3 Strategies of Persuasion as Accessibility Relations -- 4 Excursus: Ancient Greek Philosophy and Rhetorical Theory -- 5 Limitation to Narratorial Discourse -- 6 Additional Premises -- 7 The Constitutive Role of the Recipient -- 8 Usefulness of the Distinction between Narrator and Author -- PART 2: Fundamentals of Narrative Structure in Herodotus' Histories and Genesis--Kings -- 3 Highly Different Modes of Narration and Mediacy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Mediacy in Gen--Kings and Herodotus -- 3 Two Contrasting Modes of Mediation -- 4 Connecting and Disconnecting Story-World and Discourse-World -- 1 Indication of Temporal Distance between the Discourse-Now and the Past -- 2 The Proportion of Discursive Parts -- 3 The Use of Direct and Indirect Speech -- 4 Characters Indirectly Addressing the Extradiegetic Audience -- 5 Narrative Mode and Source Criticism -- PART 3: Varied Functions of Objects as Means of Persuasion -- Introduction -- 5 Material Remains as Authentication -- 1 Definition of Empirical Evidence -- 2 Overview on the Expressions of Continuity in Herodotus and Gen--Kings -- 3 Shared Characteristics of Empirical Evidence -- 4 Objects Used as Support for Established Knowledge about the Past -- 5 Objects Used as a Source of Information -- 6 The Importance of Material Remains in the Histories Is Relative -- 7 Identifying Function -- 8 Conclusion -- 6 Kinds of Presence---Do Objects Have to Be Accessible to Function as Authentication? -- 1 Border Cases: the Absence and Presence of Continuation into the Present -- 2 The Rhetoric of Lost or Hidden Monuments -- 3 Formal Criteria for Authentication Not Parsed as Evidence If Other Factors Predominate -- 4 Does Vivid Narration Suffice to Persuade of a Past Reality? -- 5 Relics as Witness in a Legal Context -- 6 Texts as Documents and Physical Relics -- 7 Conclusion -- 7 Combinations of Normative Persuasion and Authentication -- 1 Evidence for Supernatural Events as a Claim to Overall Significance -- 2 More Relics Invested with Both Empirical and Normative Plausibility -- 3 Conclusion -- 8 Objects as Visuals and Capturing a Condensed Meaning -- 1 Objects as Visuals for Motivations and Concepts -- 2 Objects as Expression of Condensed Meaning -- 3 Conclusion -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- 1 Selected Material Remains in the Biblical Account of a Past -- 2 Selected Material Remains in Herodotus' Histories -- Bibliography -- Index.",
note="by Eva Tyrell",
isbn="9789004427976",
doi="10.1163/9789004427976",
url="https://brill.com/abstract/title/57281",
url="https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004427976",
language="English"
}