Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2020. — xxiv, 379 p. — (Harvard Semitic Studies 65). In this volume, I. Tzvi Abusch presents studies written over a span of forty years prior to his retirement from Brandeis University in 2019. They reflect several themes that he has pursued in addition to his work on witchcraft literature and the Epic of Gilgamesh. Part 1 includes general articles on...
Université de Lyon, 2019. — 346 p. This study concerns the rock reliefs of the mountains of the Kurdistan (Iraq), including those discovered in three provinces of Dohuk, Erbil and Sulaymaniyeh.The reliefs are an important source of data concerning the societies of the Ancient Near East. They have been used as evidence of former ideologies, beliefs, ceremonies and rituals. We...
Université Paris sciences et lettres, 2018. — 588 p. In Mesopotamia, writing was invented, and for a long time mastered, by a small group of individuals working for the temple or the palace. After the collapse of the Third Dynasty of Ur, in 2002 BC, archaeological and epigraphic evidence reveals an intensification in the use of writing. This phenomenon, known as the “Old...
Brill, 2019. — 632 p. — (Ancient Magic and Divination 16). Le devin historien en Mésopotamie propose une approche simultanée de la divination et de l’histoire, deux domaines dont les devins furent les bâtisseurs. Ils s’y révélèrent de grands herméneutes, usant de la sémiologie pour identifier les signes, qu’ils perçurent comme des signes d’écriture, et de l’herméneutique (ils...
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2016. — 88 p. Prior to the sixth century BCE, each lunar month of the Babylonian calendar is believed to have been determined solely by direct observation of the new moon with the insertion of intercalary months arbitrarily dictated by the king and his advisors. However, lunar eclipse omens within the divination texts of the Enūma Anu...
Université de Lyon, 2017. — 743 p. The objective of the current thesis is to reach a better understanding of the scribe occupation and their training processes within the Nuzi documentation through the study of 12 scribes who worked for a woman named Tulpun-naya.By creating a descriptive profile for each of these scribes we develop a more precise understanding of their...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2022. — 201 p. — (ARATTA 2). In the study of the ancient world, Babylon can be considered as the most impressive representation, historically, archaeologically, and in literature, of urbanism in the Near East. This first example of an urban centre and its cultural heritage - both tangible and intangible - provides a focal point for...
Brill, 2024. — xiv, 311 p. — (Cuneiform Monographs 56). This volume lays theoretical and methodological groundwork for the analysis of Mesopotamian literature. A comprehensive first chapter by the editors explores critical contemporary issues in Sumerian and Akkadian narrative analysis, and nine case studies written by an international array of scholars test the responsiveness...
Macquarie University, 2022. — 77 p. The Standard Babylonian Version of the Epic of Gilgamesh offers numerous examples of communication between mortals and divinities, including the marriage proposal of the goddess Ishtar, the counsel of the sage Siduri, and the words of Gilgamesh’s divine mother Ninsun. In addition, it depicts communication with a number of liminal beings on...
Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker, 1971. — 151 p. — (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 11). Nergal (sumerisch EN-ERI-GAL, Nerigal, akkadisch dIGI, Nergal) ist eine Gottheit der sumerisch-akkadischen, babylonischen und assyrischen Religion und Vorbild und Bestandteil anderer Gottheiten anderer altorientalischer Völker. Nergal ist der Gott der Unterwelt Kurnugia. Nergal verkörpert die...
University of Oxford, 2014. — 328 p. This thesis interprets literary allusions in three major Babylonian narrative poems: Anzû, Enūma Eliš, and Erra and Išum. The use of the term 'intertextuality' recognises that these readings do not necessarily attempt to reconstruct what the authors were thinking, but are based empirically on what can be found in the text, and that...