Explaining disaster : tradition and transformation of the "Catastrophe of Ibbi-Sîn" in Babylonian literature /

Explaining disaster : tradition and transformation of the "Catastrophe of Ibbi-Sîn" in Babylonian literature /

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Author / Creator:	Schaudig, Hanspeter, author.
Imprint:	Münster : Zaphon, 2019.
Description:	viii, 700 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Series:	dubsar ; Band 13 Dubsar ; Bd. 13.
Subject:	Deluge -- Comparative studies. Deluge in literature. Sumerian literature -- History and criticism. Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian. Assyro-Babylonian literature -- History and criticism. Mythology, Sumerian. Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian. Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian. Assyro-Babylonian literature. Civilization. Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian. Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian. Deluge. Deluge in literature. Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian. Mythology, Sumerian. Sumerian literature. Iraq -- Civilization -- To 634. Iraq. Comparative studies. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11999368

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ISBN:	9783963270741 3963270748
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	"The aim of this study is to investigate the philosophy and the reasoning that transformed the plain historical fact of the destruction of the empire of the Third Dynasty of Ur under its king Ibbi-Sîn (ca. 2028-2004 BCE) into a balanced and logical model of crime and divine punishment in the course of Babylonian historiography. The study presents nearly 80 excerpts and new editions of Babylonian texts dealing with the fall of the "great city" under an "ill-starred king" by divine disfavour or wrath, among them full new editions of numerous historical omens, the Esaĝil Chronicle, the Book of Prodigies and the Religious Chronicle. It also contains excerpts from cultic lamentations, the Royal Correspondence of Ur, the Marduk Prophecy, Chronicle P, the Chedorlaomer Texts and various royal inscriptions."--Publisher's website

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Call Number:	BL325.D4 S338 2019
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