We study here the philological features of Cagni’s biblical studies. Exegete, commentator and translator, his interest in the Bible grew gradually in the field of Assyriology, aimed at the meticulous research of textual truth, through the comparativistic analysis with the Mesopotamians sources. In fact, clear analogies to the Biblical story of creation seem to indicate a contamination of Sumerian and Akkadian mythology. Cagni discusses the extra-Biblical origins of Israel’s prophecy, studying 52 prophetic texts by Mari.
Toloni, G., Filologia e umanità. Luigi Cagni e gli studi storico-filologici sulla Bibbia ebraica, in Toloni, G. (ed.), L’opera di Luigi Cagni: 1929-1998, a cura di Giancarlo Toloni, Paideia Editrice, marchio di © Claudiana srl, Torino 2018: 2018 105- 118 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/122088]
Filologia e umanità. Luigi Cagni e gli studi storico-filologici sulla Bibbia ebraica
Toloni, Giancarlo
2018
Abstract
We study here the philological features of Cagni’s biblical studies. Exegete, commentator and translator, his interest in the Bible grew gradually in the field of Assyriology, aimed at the meticulous research of textual truth, through the comparativistic analysis with the Mesopotamians sources. In fact, clear analogies to the Biblical story of creation seem to indicate a contamination of Sumerian and Akkadian mythology. Cagni discusses the extra-Biblical origins of Israel’s prophecy, studying 52 prophetic texts by Mari.
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