This article highlights the blueprint concept's role in ancient cultures, suggesting connections among Mesopotamian, Greek, and Jewish texts.
In this article we aim to demonstrate conceptual correspondences between Mesopotamian, Greek, Israelite, and Jewish texts (including Dead Sea Scrolls and Greek Jewish texts) by using the concept of תַּבְנִית (“archetype, blueprint, likeness, model, paradigm, or pattern”) and its ancient Near Eastern and Greek equivalents as case example to unfold a peculiar thread that runs through the Mesopotamian and ancient Israelite through the Jewish-Hellenistic sources: from divinely inspired architectural blueprint to its transformation into a divinely inspired ethical ideal of human creativity and imitatio dei .
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