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The most magic word : essays on Babylonian and Biblical literature / by William L. Moran ; edited by Ronald S. Hendel.
Penn Museum Library PJ3611 .M67 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moran, William L.
- Series:
- Catholic Biblical quarterly. Monograph series ; 35.
- The Catholic Biblical quarterly. Monograph series ; 35
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Assyro-Babylonian literature--History and criticism.
- Assyro-Babylonian literature.
- Assyro-Babylonian literature--Relation to the Old Testament.
- Gilgamesh.
- Atrahasis (Old Babylonian epic).
- Physical Description:
- x, 212 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Catholic Biblical Association of America, [2002]
- Contents:
- Rilke and the Gilgamesh epic
- The epic of Gilgamesh : a document of ancient humanism
- The tears of things
- Ovid's Blanda voluptas and the humanization of Enkidu
- Atrahasis : the Babylonian story of the flood
- Some considerations of form and interpretation in Atrahasis
- A Mesopotamian myth and its biblical transformation
- The creation of man in Atrahasis I 192-248
- Puppies in Proverbs : from Shamshi-Adad I to Archilochus?
- New evidence from Mari on the history of prophecy
- An ancient prophetic oracle
- The end of the unholy war and the anti-Exodus
- The repose of Rahab's Israelite guests
- The ancient Near Eastern background of the love of god in Deuteronomy
- The Babylonian job.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0915170345
- 9780915170340
- OCLC:
- 50143661
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