Babylonian Historical-Literary Texts / Albert Kirk Grayson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grayson, Albert Kirk, author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

Akkadian

English

Subjects (All):

Assyro-Babylonian literature--History and criticism.

Assyro-Babylonian literature.

Akkadian language--Texts.

Akkadian language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English and Akkadian.

Summary:

Early Assyriologists were lured to Babylonian studies by the light which cuneiform text shed on ancient history and the Bible, and for later scholars this is still the attraction. The Age of Discovery is not past, and one can still read literature that has been unseen by the eyes of man for millennia. There are myriads of tablets lying in the ancient ruins of Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, waiting for the excavator's spade; in museums there are quantities of inscriptions that have not yet been made public.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Editors' Note

Preface

Abbreviations

NOTE ON TABLET SIGNATURES

1. General Introduction

PART I AKKADIAN PROPHECIES

2. Introduction

3. The Dynastic Prophecy

PART II BABYLONIAN HISTORICAL EPICS

4. Introduction

5. Historical Epic Fragment about the Kassite Period

6. Adad-shuma-usur Epic

7. Nabopolassar Epic

8. Historical Epic Fragment regarding Evil-Merodach

9. A Babylonian Historical Epic Fragment

PART III

10. Fragments

Indexes

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9781487597856

1487597851

9781487596149

1487596146

OCLC:

1004770932