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Keilschrifttexte aus Assur 4, Babylon, Nippur, Sippar, Uruk und unbekannter Herkunft
De Gruyter 1971; US$ 168.00Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen / Keilschrifttexte aus Assur 4, Babylon, Nippur, Sippar, Uruk und unbekannter Herkunft more...
Principles of Akkadian Textual Criticism
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00Errors of many kinds abound in Akkadian writings, but this fact?s far-reaching implications have never been unraveled and systematized. To attempt this is the aim of this book. Drawing on scholarship from other fields, it outlines a framework for the critical evaluation of extant text and the formulation of conjectural emendations. Along the way, it... more...
Complete Babylonian
Hodder Education 2010; US$ 47.98All you need to read and understand Babylonian. more...
Mesopotamian uilla Prayers to Ea, Marduk, and Nabû
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 149.95First published over a century ago, the uilla ("Raised-Hand") prayers have received little close study. This book focuses on the hymnic introductions of these multipurpose prayers as theological texts in their own right. more...
Syntactic Change in Akkadian
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.... more...
Literarische Texte aus Ur
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 238.00The 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... more...
The Buried Foundation of the Gilgamesh Epic
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...
Asian Diasporas
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"
Mohr Siebeck 2010; US$ 80.44Hauptbeschreibung 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... more...
When Heroes Love
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 59.99Toward the end of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh King Gilgamesh laments the untimely death of his comrade Enkidu, "my friend whom I loved dearly." Similarly in the Bible, David mourns his companion, Jonathan, whose "love to me was wonderful, greater than the love of women." These passages, along with other ambiguous erotic and sexual language... more...









