Explaining disaster : tradition and transformation of the "Catastrophe of Ibbi-Sîn" in Babylonian literature / Hanspeter Schaudig.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Schaudig, Hanspeter, author.

Series:

• Dubsar ; Bd. 13.
• Dubsar ; Band 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Deluge--Comparative studies.
• Deluge in literature.
• Sumerian literature--History and criticism.
• Sumerian literature.
• Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian.
• Assyro-Babylonian literature--History and criticism.
• Assyro-Babylonian literature.
• Mythology, Sumerian.
• Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian.
• Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian.
• Deluge.
• Iraq--Civilization--To 634.
• Iraq.
• Civilization.

Genre:

• Comparative studies.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 700 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Münster : Zaphon, 2019.

Summary:

"The aim of this study is to investigate the philosophy and the reasoning that transformed the plain historical fact of the destruction of the empire of the Third Dynasty of Ur under its king Ibbi-Sîn (ca. 2028-2004 BCE) into a balanced and logical model of crime and divine punishment in the course of Babylonian historiography. The study presents nearly 80 excerpts and new editions of Babylonian texts dealing with the fall of the "great city" under an "ill-starred king" by divine disfavour or wrath, among them full new editions of numerous historical omens, the Esaĝil Chronicle, the Book of Prodigies and the Religious Chronicle. It also contains excerpts from cultic lamentations, the Royal Correspondence of Ur, the Marduk Prophecy, Chronicle P, the Chedorlaomer Texts and various royal inscriptions."--Publisher's website

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

• 9783963270741
• 3963270748

OCLC:

1131889173