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The performance of Balag and Eršema prayers in the late first millennium BC / Sam Mirelman.
LIBRA BL560 .M57 2024
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mirelman, Sam, 1974- author.
- Series:
- Heidelberger Emesal-Studien ; 2195-7037 Bd. 4.
- Heidelberger Emesal-Studien, 2195-7037 ; Band 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prayer--Middle East--History.
- Prayer.
- Sumerian language--Texts.
- Sumerian language.
- Music--Middle East--Religious aspects--History.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 354 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024.
- Contents:
- Overview of the corpus of tablets including performative indications
- Features and typology of performative indications
- The possible functions of performative indications in historical and ethnographic perspective
- Prosody and performance
- Performance and affect.
- Notes:
- Originally presented as the second part of the author's thesis (PhD--New York) under the title: Text and performance in the Mesopotamian liturgical tradition.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-332) and indexes.
- Other Format:
- e-book version
- ISBN:
- 9783447122702
- 3447122706
- OCLC:
- 1463809627
- Publisher Number:
- 90103316803
- 9783447122702
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