Babylonian Historical-Literary Texts / / Albert Kirk Grayson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Grayson, Albert Kirk,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1975
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (128 p.) :; figs throughout
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Editors' Note --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; NOTE ON TABLET SIGNATURES --; 1. General Introduction --; PART I AKKADIAN PROPHECIES --; 2. Introduction --; 3. The Dynastic Prophecy --; PART II BABYLONIAN HISTORICAL EPICS --; 4. Introduction --; 5. Historical Epic Fragment about the Kassite Period --; 6. Adad-shuma-usur Epic --; 7. Nabopolassar Epic --; 8. Historical Epic Fragment regarding Evil-Merodach --; 9. A Babylonian Historical Epic Fragment --; PART III --; 10. Fragments --; Indexes
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487596149; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487596149
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Albert Kirk Grayson.

Early Assyriologists were lured to Babylonian studies by the light which cuneiform text shed on ancient history and the Bible, and for later scholars this is still the attraction. The Age of Discovery is not past, and one can still read literature that has been unseen by the eyes of man for millennia. There are myriads of tablets lying in the ancient ruins of Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, waiting for the excavator's spade; in museums there are quantities of inscriptions that have not yet been made public.