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Syntactic Change in Akkadianby Guy Deutscher
OUP Oxford 2007; US$ 55.00In this book Guy Deutscher examines the historical development of Akkadian, the oldest recorded Semitic language and one of the earliest attested languages. Two thousand years of texts from 2500BC to 500BC provide a unique source for the study of linguistic change. The first two parts of the book present an historical grammar of sentential complementation. Part one traces the emergence of new structures, describing how finite complements first developed, and tracing the grammaticalization of the quotative construction. Part two examines the language's functional history. It looks at the evolution of linguistic structures, showing for example how finite complements and embedded questions became more widespread as other parataxis and non-finite... more...
Literarische Texte aus Urby Marie-Christine Ludwig
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 232.00The volume Literarische Texte aus Ur: Kollationen und Kommentare zu UET 6/1-2 [Literary Texts from Ur: Collations and Commentaries on UET 6/1-2] contains corrigenda and addenda to the Sumerian and Akkadian literary cuneiform texts on clay tablets from the ancient city of Ur, in modern Iraq, published by C.J. Gadd and S.N. Kramer in UET 6/1-2 (London 1963 and 1966). It deals with problematic forms and readings of individual characters, the archaeological context of the tablets, the types of clay tablets, and the trace fossils preserved on them. more...
The Buried Foundation of the Gilgamesh Epicby Daniel E Fleming; Sara J Milstein
BRILL 2010; US$ 132.00Based on contrasting characterization and narrative logic between the central Huwawa episode and the remaining material for the earliest Akkadian Gilgamesh, this book challenges the accepted notion that the famous epic was composed without recourse to a previous Akkadian narrative. more...
Das Gilgamesch-Eposby Walther Sallaberger
C.H. Beck 2011; US$ 8.56Hauptbeschreibung Walther Sallaberger stellt mit dem Gilgamesch-Epos das älteste Werk der Weltliteratur vor, das von den Grundfragen des menschlichen Daseins handelt. In einer allgemeinverständlichen Einführung erläutert er den Mythos des Königs Gilgamesch von Uruk. Er erklärt die historischen Bezüge des Gilgamesch-Epos, stellt seine Protagonisten vor und informiert über seine Verbreitung, seine literarische Gestaltung, seine anthropologischen Aspekte und seine Rezeptionsgeschichte. So bietet er vor dem Hintergrund der Traditionen zu Gilgamesch, die sich über zweieinhalb Jahrtausende verfolgen lassen, einen anregenden Überblick über Geistesgeschichte, Literatur und Kultur Mesopotamiens. Biographische Informationen Walther Sallaberger... more...
Asian Diasporasby Robbie B.H. Goh; Shawn Wong
Hong Kong University Press 2004; US$ 23.00The essays in this volume view Asian diasporic movements in the context of globalization and global citizenship, in which multiple cultural allegiances, influences and claims together create complex negotiations of identity. more...
"I Undertook Great Works"by Douglas J. Green
Mohr Siebeck 2010; US$ 79.35Hauptbeschreibung Traditionally, scholars study ancient Near Eastern royal inscriptions to reconstruct the events they narrate. In recent decades, however, a new approach has analyzed these inscriptions as products of royal ideology and has delineated the way that ideology has shaped their narration of historical events. This ideologically-sensitive approach has focused on kings' accounts of their military campaigns. This study applies this approach to the narration of royal domestic achievements, first in the Neo-Assyrian inscriptional tradition, but especially in nine West Semitic inscriptions from the 10th to 7th centuries B.C.E. and describes how these accounts also function as the products of royal ideology. more...
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