Enūma Eliš

Author : Wilfred G. Lambert
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575068619

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Babylonian Creation Myths by Wilfred G. Lambert Pdf

For much of the last half of the twentieth century, W. G. Lambert devoted much of his research energy and effort to the study of Babylonian texts dealing with Mesopotamian ideas regarding creation, including especially Enuma Elish. This volume, which appears almost exactly 2 years after Lambert’s death, distills a lifetime of learning by the world’s foremost expert on these texts. Lambert provides a full transliteration and translation of the 7 tablets of Enuma Elish, based on the known exemplars, as well as coverage of a number of other texts that bear on, or are thought to bear on, Mesopotamian notions of the origin of the world, mankind, and the gods. New editions of seventeen additional “creation tales” are provided, including “Enmesharra’s Defeat,” “Enki and Ninmah,” “The Slaying of Labbu,” and “The Theogony of Dunnu.” Lambert pays special attention, of course, to the connection of the main epic, Enuma Elish, with the rise and place of Marduk in the Babylonian pantheon. He traces the development of this deity’s origin and rise to prominence and elaborates the relationship of this text, and the others discussed, to the religious and political climate Babylonia. The volume includes 70 plates (primarily hand-copies of the various exemplars of Enuma Elish) and extensive indexes.

Author : Leonard William King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Akkadian language
ISBN : OCLC:878145130

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The Seven Tablets of Creation by Leonard William King Pdf

Author : Eva Christiane Cancik-Kirschbaum,Margarete van Ess,Joachim Marzahn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783110222111

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Babylon by Eva Christiane Cancik-Kirschbaum,Margarete van Ess,Joachim Marzahn Pdf

Note biographique : Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Freie Universität Berlin; Joachim Marzahn, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin;Margarete van Ess, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Orient-Abteilung, Berlin

Author : Bronson Brown-deVost
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647540726

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Commentary and Authority in Mesopotamia and Qumran by Bronson Brown-deVost Pdf

How did the written word serve as an authoritative source in the ancient world? What does it mean that some works became so popular as to merit dedicated interpretive commentaries? And does any direct relationship exist between the various methods of interpretation and styles of composition in these commentaries? The present work sets out to provide some solid answers to such questions. At the heart of this book stands a comparative analysis of ancient cuneiform commentary texts from mid-to-late first millennium Mesopotamia and early Jewish commentaries—known as pesharim—from the turn of the common era found in caves near Khirbet Qumran. Though some aspects of Mesopotamian hermeneutics may have influenced Jewish exegesis, likely through Jewish Aramaic scribes, the actual Mesopotamian practice of composing commentary texts exerted little-to-no influence on the compositional techniques of the pesharim. Nevertheless, many textual difficulties in the Qumran pesharim can be explained as the result of an accretion of interpretations over an extended period of time—a practice detailed in the textual record of the Mesopotamian commentaries. What is more, these commentaries reveal important evidence about both the way in which and the extent to which such works functioned as authoritative sources. As a result, this book advocates a shift away from discussing textual authority in simple binary terms, both in ancient and modern contexts, to functional descriptions of literary authority.

Author : Shawn W. Flynn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004263048

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YHWH is King by Shawn W. Flynn Pdf

Amidst various methodologies for the comparative study of the Hebrew Bible, at times the opportunity arises to improve on a method recently introduced into the field. In YHWH is King, Flynn uses the anthropological method of cultural translation to study diachronic change in YHWH’s kingship. Here, such change is compared to a similar Babylonian development to Marduk’s kingship. Based on that comparison and informed by cultural translation, Flynn discovers that Judahite scribes suppressed the earlier YHWH warrior king and promoted a creator/universal king in order to combat the increasing threat of Neo-Assyrian imperialism. Flynn thus opens the possibility, that Judahite scribes engaged in a cultural translation of Marduk to YHWH, in order to respond to the mounting Neo-Assyrian presence.

Author : Adrian Kelly,Christopher Metcalf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108480246

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Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology by Adrian Kelly,Christopher Metcalf Pdf

Explores the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East through stories about the gods and their relationships with humankind.

Author : I. Tzvi Abusch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004435186

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Essays on Babylonian and Biblical Literature and Religion by I. Tzvi Abusch Pdf

These studies take up several themes that the author has pursued in addition to his work on witchcraft literature and Gilgamesh. The volume contains general articles on Mesopotamian magic, religion, and mythology; studies, synchronic and diachronic, on Akkadian prayers; treatments of literary classics; comparative studies of terms and phenomena; and examinations of legal texts.

Author : Adam E. Miglio
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000837902

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The Gilgamesh Epic in Genesis 1-11 by Adam E. Miglio Pdf

This book provides a substantive, reliable, and accessible comparison of the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis 1–11, investigating their presentation of humanistic themes such as wisdom, power, and the ‘good life.’ While the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis 1–11 are characterized by historical and cultural features that may seem unusual or challenging to modern readers, such as the intervention of gods and goddesses and talking animals, these ancient literary masterpieces are nonetheless familiar and relatable stories through their humanistic composition. This volume explores the presentation of humanistic themes and motifs throughout both stories. Significant passages and narratives, such as stories from the Garden of Eden and the Flood, are translated into English and accompanied by comprehensive discussions that compare and contrast shared ideas in both compositions. Written in a lucid and concise fashion, this book offers new insights into the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis 1–11 in an accessible way. The Gilgamesh Epic in Genesis 1–11: Peering into the Deep is suitable for students and scholars of ancient Near Eastern literature, with broad appeal across religious studies, ancient history, and world literature.

Author : Takayoshi Oshima
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Assyro-Babylonian literature
ISBN : 3161508319

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Babylonian Prayers to Marduk by Takayoshi Oshima Pdf

This is the first comprehensive study of Babylonian prayers dedicated to Marduk, the god of Babylon, since J. Hehn's essay Hymnen und Gebete an Marduk (1905). Marduk was the god of the city of Babylon and was the most important god in Babylonia from the time of Hammurabi (the 18th century BCE) onwards. In this book, Takayoshi Oshima presents an up-to-date catalog of all known Babylonian prayers dedicated to Marduk from different historical periods and offers critical editions of 31 ancient texts based on newly identified manuscripts and a collation of the previously published manuscripts. The author also discusses various aspects of Akkadian prayers to different deities and the ancient belief in the mechanism of punishment and redemption by Marduk.

Author : Willard McCarty,Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd,Aparecida Vilaça
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000566451

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Science in the Forest, Science in the Past by Willard McCarty,Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd,Aparecida Vilaça Pdf

Science in the Forest, Science in the Past: Further Interdisciplinary Explorations comprises of papers from the second of two workshops involving a group of scholars united in the conviction that the great diversity of knowledge claims and practices for which we have evidence must be taken seriously in their own terms rather than by the yardstick of Western modernity. Bringing to bear social anthropology, history and philosophy of science, computer science, classics and sinology among other fields, they argue that the use of such dismissive labels as ‘magic’, ‘superstition’ and the ‘irrational’ masks rather than solves the problem and reject counsels of despair which assume or argue that radically alien beliefs are strictly unintelligible to outsiders and can be understood only from within the system in question. At the same time, they accept that how to proceed to a better understanding of the data in question poses a formidable challenge. Key problems identified in the inaugural workshop, whose proceedings were published in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory (2019) and in HAU Books (2020), provided the basis for asking how obvious pitfalls might be avoided and a new or revised framework within which to pursue these problems proposed. The chapters in this book were originally published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews.

Author : Pirjo Lapinkivi
Publisher : State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Akkadian language
ISBN : 9521013338

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The Neo-Assyrian Myth of Ištar's Descent and Resurrection by Pirjo Lapinkivi Pdf

"Critical edition of the 'Descent of Iéstar to the Netherworld'"--p. v.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004515109

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Congress Volume Aberdeen 2019 by Anonim Pdf

This volume presents the main lectures of the 23rd Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) held in Aberdeen, United Kingdom, in August 2019.

Author : David S. Vanderhooft,Abraham Winitzer
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575068671

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Literature as Politics, Politics as Literature by David S. Vanderhooft,Abraham Winitzer Pdf

This volume, in celebration of Peter Machinist, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University, includes twenty-eight illuminating essays on ancient Near Eastern history and literature, which focus especially on the intersection of these fields. Contributors include one of Machinist’s teachers, several of his students, and numerous colleagues and friends. These essays probe topics for which Machinist’s work has often set new standards. And in the spirit of the honoree and his interests, these comparative studies encompass Babel, Bibel, and more. In them, Assyriologists contend with biblical cruxes and biblicists engage Assyriological research, while classicists and Hittitologists participate with considerations of their respective disciplines within a broad cross-cultural context. The volume is a must for anyone committed to the ongoing comparative study of the ancient Near East, and within that framework, the historical study of the Hebrew Bible.

Author : Safwat Marzouk
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161532457

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Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel by Safwat Marzouk Pdf

Appealing to Monster Theory and the ancient Near Eastern motif of "Chaoskampf," Safwat Marzouk argues that the paradoxical character of the category of the monster is what prompts the portrayal of Egypt as a monster in the book of Ezekiel. While on the surface the monster seems to embody utter difference, underlying its otherness there is a disturbing sameness. Though the monster may be defeated and its body dismembered, it is never completely annihilated. Egypt is portrayed as a monster in the book of Ezekiel because Egypt represents the threat of religious assimilation. Although initially the monstrosity of Egypt is constructed because of the shared elements of identity between Egypt and Israel, the prophet flips this imagery of monster in order to embody Egypt as a monstrous Other. In a combat myth, YHWH defeats the monster and dismembers its body. Despite its near annihilation, Egypt, in Ezekiel's rhetoric, is not entirely obliterated. Rather, it is kept at bay, hovering at the periphery, questioning Israel's identity.

Author : L. W. King
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1902-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465517708

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Enuma Elish: The Epic of Creation by L. W. King Pdf