Adapa and the South Wind : : Language Has the Power of Life and Death / / Shlomo Izre'el.
The scholarly world first became aware of the myth of Adapa and the South Wind when it was discovered on a tablet from the El-Amarna archive in 1887. We now have at our disposal six fragments of the myth. The largest and most important fragment, from Amarna, is dated to the 14th century B.C.E. This...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mesopotamian Civilizations
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (194 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Texts and Fragments
- Chapter 2 Dating and Compositional Factors
- Chapter 3 The Myth as Poetry
- Chapter 4 Language Has the Power of Life and Death: Structure and Meaning
- Bibliography
- Plates