Essays on Babylonian and Biblical Literature and Religion

Essays on Babylonian and Biblical Literature and Religion
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 403
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ISBN-10 : 9789004435186
ISBN-13 : 9004435182
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Download or read book Essays on Babylonian and Biblical Literature and Religion written by I. Tzvi Abusch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Mesopotamian magic, religion, and mythology, followed by a set of articles on Akkadian prayers, especially šuillas, focusing on exegetical and linguistic (synchronic) studies and on diachronic analyses. Part 2 contains a series of literary studies of Mesopotamian and biblical classics. Part 3 is devoted to comparative studies of terms and phenomena. Part 4 examines legal texts. The Harvard Semitic Studies series publishes volumes from the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. Other series offered by Brill that publish volumes from the Museum include Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant and Harvard Semitic Monographs, https://hmane.harvard.edu/publications.


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