RT Book
T1 An introduction to Akkadian literature: contexts and content
A1 Lenzi, Alan 1970-
LA English
PP University Park, PA
PB Penn State University Press
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1769965572
AB Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Akkadian: Linguistic, Geographical, and Chronological Parameters -- An Overview of the Textual Record -- Chapter 1. Prolegomena to the Study of Akkadian Literature -- Introduction -- Tablets: From Excavation to Translation -- Scribes: Contextualizing Literary Production -- Compositions: General Issues -- Audiences: Who Read These Texts? -- Chapter 2. Survey of Selected Text Groups -- Introduction -- Mythological and Heroic Epics -- Legends of Akkadian Kings -- Historiographical Texts -- Legal and Political Documents -- Divination: Deductive and Intuitive -- Other Scholarly Texts -- Prayers, Incantations, Incantation- Prayers, Laments, and Hymns -- Meditations on Human Suffering and the Divine -- Proverbs, Advice, Dialogues, and Debates -- Satire, Parody, and Humor -- Conclusion: The Future of Akkadian Literature -- Bibliography -- Index
AB This book initiates the reader into the study of Akkadian literature from ancient Babylonia and Assyria. With this one relatively short volume, the novice reader will develop the literary competence necessary to read and interpret Akkadian texts in translation and will gain a broad familiarity with the major genres and compositions in the language.The first part of the book presents introductory discussions of major critical issues, organized under four key rubrics: tablets, scribes, compositions, and audiences. Here, the reader will find descriptions of the tablets used as writing material; the training scribes received and the institutional contexts in which they worked; the general characteristics of Akkadian compositions, with an emphasis on poetic and literary features; and the various audiences or users of Akkadian texts. The second part surveys the corpus of Akkadian literature defined inclusively, canvasing a wide spectrum of compositions. Legal codes, historical inscriptions, divinatory compendia, and religious texts have a place in the survey alongside narrative poems, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enuma elish, and Babylonian Theodicy. Extensive footnotes and a generous bibliography guide readers who wish to continue their study.Essential for students of Assyriology, An Introduction to Akkadian Literature will also prove useful to biblical scholars, classicists, Egyptologists, ancient historians, and literary comparativists
OP 264
CN 892/.1
SN 978-1-64602-032-4
K1 HISTORY / Middle East / Iraq
K1 LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
K1 RELIGION / Ancient
K1 Akkadian
K1 Ancient Literature
K1 Ancient Middle East
K1 Ancient Near East
K1 Gilgamesh
K1 Babylonian Literature
K1 Old Testament
K1 Hebrew Bible
K1 World Literature
K1 Babylonian Creation Story
K1 Wisdom Literature
K1 Assyrian Literature
K1 HISTORY / General
K1 Einführung
DO 10.1515/9781646020324