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An Introduction to Akkadian Literature
Author | : Alan Lenzi |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2020-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781646020324 |
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This book initiates the reader into the study of Akkadian literature from ancient Babylonia and Assyria. With this one relatively short volume, the novice reader will develop the literary competence necessary to read and interpret Akkadian texts in translation and will gain a broad familiarity with the major genres and compositions in the language. The first part of the book presents introductory discussions of major critical issues, organized under four key rubrics: tablets, scribes, compositions, and audiences. Here, the reader will find descriptions of the tablets used as writing material; the training scribes received and the institutional contexts in which they worked; the general characteristics of Akkadian compositions, with an emphasis on poetic and literary features; and the various audiences or users of Akkadian texts. The second part surveys the corpus of Akkadian literature defined inclusively, canvasing a wide spectrum of compositions. Legal codes, historical inscriptions, divinatory compendia, and religious texts have a place in the survey alongside narrative poems, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enuma elish, and Babylonian Theodicy. Extensive footnotes and a generous bibliography guide readers who wish to continue their study. Essential for students of Assyriology, An Introduction to Akkadian Literature will also prove useful to biblical scholars, classicists, Egyptologists, ancient historians, and literary comparativists.
An Introduction to Akkadian Literature
Author | : Alan Lenzi |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2020-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781646020300 |
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This book initiates the reader into the study of Akkadian literature from ancient Babylonia and Assyria. With this one relatively short volume, the novice reader will develop the literary competence necessary to read and interpret Akkadian texts in translation and will gain a broad familiarity with the major genres and compositions in the language. The first part of the book presents introductory discussions of major critical issues, organized under four key rubrics: tablets, scribes, compositions, and audiences. Here, the reader will find descriptions of the tablets used as writing material; the training scribes received and the institutional contexts in which they worked; the general characteristics of Akkadian compositions, with an emphasis on poetic and literary features; and the various audiences or users of Akkadian texts. The second part surveys the corpus of Akkadian literature defined inclusively, canvasing a wide spectrum of compositions. Legal codes, historical inscriptions, divinatory compendia, and religious texts have a place in the survey alongside narrative poems, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enuma elish, and Babylonian Theodicy. Extensive footnotes and a generous bibliography guide readers who wish to continue their study. Essential for students of Assyriology, An Introduction to Akkadian Literature will also prove useful to biblical scholars, classicists, Egyptologists, ancient historians, and literary comparativists.
Akkadian Literature of the Late Period
Author | : Benjamin Read Foster |
Publsiher | : Ugarit Verlag |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : UOM:39015073664487 |
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From an Antique Land
Author | : Carl S. Ehrlich |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2009-01-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780742563476 |
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Many of the world's first written records have been found in the area of the Ancient Near East, in what is today known as the Middle East. While many people are familiar with the ancient Israelite literature recorded in the Hebrew Bible, most Near Eastern literature remains a mystery. From an Antique Land lifts the veil from these fascinating writings, explaining the ancient stories in the context of their cultures. From the invention of writing through the conquest of Alexander the Great, expert scholars examine literature originally written in Egyptian, Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Ugaritic, Canaanite, Hebrew, and Aramaic. Each chapter includes an overview of the culture, a discussion of literary genres, and descriptions and short analyses of the major literary works. Photos of archaeological remains further illustrate these people and their writings.
Before the Muses
Author | : Benjamin Read Foster |
Publsiher | : Eisenbrauns |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Akkadian language |
ISBN | : 1883053765 |
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Comprehensive collection of ancient Akkadian literature spanning three millennia. This larger, completely new, 3rd edition contains many compositions not in the previous editions; new translations of previously included compositions; incorporation of new text fragments identified or excavated since the last publication; all new footnotes; references and commentary brought up to date to reflect scholarly work of the last 10 years; and 100 more pages than the old two-volume edition.
Introduction to Akkadian
Author | : Richard I. Caplice |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Akkadian language |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106007168922 |
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Babylonian Wisdom Literature
Author | : Wilfred G. Lambert |
Publsiher | : Eisenbrauns |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0931464943 |
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In Babylonian studies 'Wisdom' is used to cover a group of texts similar in scope to the Biblical Wisdom books: discussions on the problem of suffering, teaching on the good life, fables or contest literature, and proverbs.
Principles of Akkadian Textual Criticism
Author | : Martin Worthington |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2012-07-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781614510567 |
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Errors of many kinds abound in Akkadian writings, but this fact’s far-reaching implications have never been unraveled and systematized. To attempt this is the aim of this book. Drawing on scholarship from other fields, it outlines a framework for the critical evaluation of extant text and the formulation of conjectural emendations. Along the way, it explores issues at the interface of orthography, textual transmission, scribal education, grammar, literacy, and literary interpretation.