Notes to Chapter 25. Difficulty and Catharsis

Giorgio Buccellati, “When on High…”

August 2023

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For the concept of ‘absolute conditioning’, see Buccellati 2014 Time.
– [ Marco De Pietri, June 2020]
For a discussion on the development of first religious thoughts in Ancient Near East, see supra 6.2 and 16.1.
– [ Marco De Pietri, November 2020]

For the human confrontation with the ‘absolute’, see Buccellati 2014 Time.
– [ Marco De Pietri, June 2020]
On fate/destiny in ancient Mesopotamia, see supra 14.5.
– [ Marco De Pietri, November 2020]
On creation in the Bible, see supra 6.9 and 7.9.
– [ Marco De Pietri, November 2020]
On human freedom given by God in the Bible, see supra 5.5. Specifically on human free will in the Bible and later Rabbinic tradition, see e.g. the Jewish Encyclopedia.
– [ Marco De Pietri, November 2020]

On the phenomenon of fragmentation in Mesopotamia, see supra 2.9.
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On incarnation in a Christian perspective, see supra 7.9.
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On the Trinitarian relationship, see supra 6.10.
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For ** Gen 2, 17**, the biblical passage about the ‘tree of the knowledge’, see here.
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On the term ĕlohîm, see the Jewish Encyclopedia. For the specific Hebrew term אֱלֹהִים, ^ĕlohîm, ‘God(s)’, see DCH 1, pp. 277-286.
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For ** Gen 3, 5**, the biblical passage about the ‘becoming like gods’, see here.
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For ** Gen 3, 6**, the biblical passage about the tree of the knowledge becoming ‘good to eat’, see here.
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For ** Gen 3, 7**, the biblical passage about Adam and Eve realising to be ‘not dressed’, see here.

On the Mesopotamian counterpart of becoming a civilized man, regarding Enkidu’s process of civilization, see supra 13.6.
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See Smith 1963 Before on original sin.
– [ Jonah Lynch, January 2021]

E io ch’al fine di tutt’ i disii / appropinquava, sí com’ io dovea, / l’ardor del desiderio in me finii. (Dante, Commedia Paradiso XXXIII).
– [ Giorgio Buccellati, March 2020]
On the topic of desire, analysed under a philosophical and psychological perspective, see e.g. Marks 1986 Desire.
– [ Marco De Pietri, November 2020]
See Marks 1986 Desire on the topic of desire.
– [ Jonah Lynch, January 2021]

For the text of the Assyrian elegy left by an anonymous poet of the 7^th cent. BC presenting a dialogue in front of a woman’s grave, see Foster 2005 Before, p. 949 (Text G.IV.29), with further literature in notes.

The text has been republished and deeply analysed in George 2010 Elegy.
– [ Marco De Pietri, November 2020]
For a detailed analysis of the metaphor of the boat in ancient Mesopotamian literature see Hatinen 2017 Boat
– [ Stefania Ermidoro, November 2020]
See George 2010 Elegy for the transliteration and English translation of the Assyrian elegy reported by G. Buccellati at the end of his volume.
– [ Marco De Pietri, January 2021]