The Babylonian disputation poems : with editions of the Series of the poplar, palm and vine, the Series of the spider, and the Story of the poor, forlorn wren / by Enrique Jiménez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jiménez, Enrique, 1985- author.

Series:

Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 87.

Culture and history of the ancient Near East, 1566-2055 ; volume 87

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Assyro-Babylonian poetry--History and criticism.

Assyro-Babylonian poetry.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xviii, 525 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

In 'The Babylonian Disputation Poems' Enrique Jimenez studies a group of ancient Babylonian poems that feature discussions between animals and trees. Using intertextual parallels and comparison with similar works in other literatures, he espouses a new classification of the Babylonian disputation poems as parodies. After examining neighboring traditions of literary disputation, he argues that the Babylonian poems influenced them, and that some may have been translated from Akkadian to Aramaic, from Aramaic and Syriac to Arabic. 00In addition, 'The Babylonian Disputation Poems' provides editions of several previously unpublished Babylonian disputations, such as 'Palm and Vine' and the 'Series of the Spider'. It also offers the first edition of the latest known Babylonian fable, 'The Story of the Poor', 'Forlorn Wren'.

Contents:

The Mesopotamian Disputation Poems. Introduction

Definition of the corpus

Sumerian dispuation poems

The place of disputation poems within Babylonian literature

Sitz-im-Leben of the diputation Poems

Mesopotamian dispuations in later tradition

The Series of the Poplar. Introduction

Edition

Study

Palm and Vine. Introduction

The Series of the Spider. Introduction

The Story of the Poor, Forlorn Wren. Introduction

Fragments with Literatury Disputations. Series of the Fox

Others

Bibliography

A Syriac Dialogue Poem between the Vine and Cedar by Dawid bar PawlosIndices

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Jiménez, Enrique, 1985- author. Babylonian disputation poems.

ISBN:

9789004336254

9004336257

OCLC:

958797869