An Introduction to Akkadian Literature : : Contexts and Content / / Alan Lenzi.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 21 illustrations |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t List of Illustrations -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Abbreviations -- |t Prologue -- |t Introduction -- |t Akkadian: Linguistic, Geographical, and Chronological Parameters -- |t An Overview of the Textual Record -- |t Chapter 1. Prolegomena to the Study of Akkadian Literature -- |t Introduction -- |t Tablets: From Excavation to Translation -- |t Scribes: Contextualizing Literary Production -- |t Compositions: General Issues -- |t Audiences: Who Read These Texts? -- |t Chapter 2. Survey of Selected Text Groups -- |t Introduction -- |t Mythological and Heroic Epics -- |t Legends of Akkadian Kings -- |t Historiographical Texts -- |t Legal and Political Documents -- |t Divination: Deductive and Intuitive -- |t Other Scholarly Texts -- |t Prayers, Incantations, Incantation- Prayers, Laments, and Hymns -- |t Meditations on Human Suffering and the Divine -- |t Proverbs, Advice, Dialogues, and Debates -- |t Satire, Parody, and Humor -- |t Conclusion: The Future of Akkadian Literature -- |t Bibliography -- |t Index |
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| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 538 | |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
| 546 | |a In English. | ||
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