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Tigay, Jeffrey Howard was born on December 25, 1941 in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
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he Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the world's oldest known epics-it predates Homer by several centuries and is recognized as seminal to the cultural history of the Ancient Near East. Interpretation and decipherment of the story of Gilgamesh--fragmentary and contradictory as its several variants are--has been a monumental scholarly task, spanning more than a century...until Jeffrey Tigay teased out the epic's evolution. In this volume, Tigay traces the development of the composition of The Gilgamesh Epic over nearly two millennia and through the several languages in which it has been transmitted. The result is a study both comprehensive in breadth and impressive in methodology. The author breaks from his scholarly predecessors in relying on documented textual evidence rather than on critical analysis and hypotheses. The immense contribution represented by this study has been acknowledged since its first publication in 1982. This reprint edition once again makes Tigay's groundbreaking work readily available to humanists, historians of literature and religion, biblical and classical scholars, anthropologists, and folklorists. Special Features * Aims to show how The Gilgamesh Epic developed from its earliest to its latest form * Systematic, step-by-step tracking of the stylistic, thematic, structural, and theological changes in The Gilgamesh Epic * Relation of changes to factors (geographical, political, religious, literary) that may have prompted them * Attempts to identify the sources (biographical, historical, literary, folkloric) of the epic's themes, and to suggest what may have been intended by use of these themes * Extensive bibliography * Indices Also available: The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Myth Revisited - ISBN 0865165270 The Epic of Gilgamesh - ISBN 0865163529 For over 30 years Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has produced the highest quality Latin and ancient Greek books. From Dr. Seuss books in Latin to Plato's Apology, Bolchazy-Carducci's titles help readers learn about ancient Rome and Greece; the Latin and ancient Greek languages are alive and well with titles like Cicero's De Amicitia and Kaegi's Greek Grammar. We also feature a line of contemporary eastern European and WWII books. Some of the areas we publish in include: Selections From The Aeneid Latin Grammar & Pronunciation Greek Grammar & Pronunciation Texts Supporting Wheelock's Latin Classical author workbooks: Vergil, Ovid, Horace, Catullus, Cicero Vocabulary Cards For AP Selections: Vergil, Ovid, Catullus, Horace Greek Mythology Greek Lexicon Slovak Culture And History
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Tigay, Jeffrey Howard was born on December 25, 1941 in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
Bachelor in History, Columbia University, 1963; postgraduate, University of Pennsylvania, 1964-1965; graduate, Jewish Theological Seminary American, 1963; M of Hebrew Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary American, 1966; graduate rabbinical school, Jewish Theological Seminary American, 1968; Doctor of Divinity (honorary), Jewish Theological Seminary American, 1994; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1971.
Curriculum writer, teacher trainer Melton Research Center, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1963-1966;
lecturer Bible, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1965-1968;
teaching assistant Department Religious Studies, Yale University, New Haven, 1968-1969;
teaching associate Hebrew, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1969-1971;
Abraham M. Ellis assistant professor Hebrew & Semitic Langs. & Lits., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1971-1977-;
associate professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1977-1986;
professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1986;
chairman Jewish Studies program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1995-1998. Visiting associate professor Bible, Jewish Theological Seminary American, 1980, 86.
Lecturer in field; consultant W National Educational Television television, New York City, 1982, National Geographic, 1989. Member overseers committee visit Department Near Eastern Langs. and Civilizations Harvard University, since 1993. Visiting research scholar Institute Jewish Studies Hebrew U., Jerusalem, 1975-1976, fellow Institute Advanced Studies, 1978-1979.
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Author: The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic, 1982, You Shall Have No Other Gods: Israelite Religion in the Light of Hebrew Inscriptions, 1986, The JPS Torah Commentary: Deuteronomy, 1996. Author, editor: Empirical Models for Biblical Criticism, 1985. Co-editor: Studies in Midrash and Related Literature, 1988, Tehilla le-Moshe.
Biblical and Judaic Studies in Honor of Moshe Greenberg, 1997. Contributor articles to professional journal.
Fellow American Academy Jewish Research (nominating committee since 1995), American Oriental Society, American Schools Oriental Research (associate trustee 1974-1976), Association Jewish Studies (board of directors 1973-1976, 85-88, organizer regional conference 1974, editorial board AJS Review 1978-1983, program committee 1990-1992, nominating committee since 1995), Biblical Colloquium (chairman membership committee 1990-1994), Columbia University Seminar Study Hebrew Bible, Society Biblical Literature (associate county national society, program chairman Hudson-Delaware region 1974-1975, president 1975-1976, editorial board Journal Biblical Literature 1977-1981, Jewish Quarterly Review since 1995).
Married Helene Zubkoff, June 13, 1965. 4 children.