Essays on Babylonian and biblical literature and religion /
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| Author / Creator: | Abusch, I. Tzvi, author. |
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| Uniform title: | Essays. Selections |
| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] |
| Description: | 1 online resource ( xxiii, 379 pages) : illustrations, plates. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East publications Harvard Semitic studies, 0147-9342 ; volume 65 Harvard Semitic studies ; no. 65. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12528973 |
| Summary: | In this volume, I. Tzvi Abusch presents studies written over a span of forty years prior to his retirement from Brandeis University in 2019. They reflect several themes that he has pursued in addition to his work on witchcraft literature and the Epic of Gilgamesh. Part 1 includes general articles on Mesopotamian magic, religion, and mythology, followed by a set of articles on Akkadian prayers, especially suillas , focusing on exegetical and linguistic (synchronic) studies and on diachronic analyses. Part 2 contains a series of literary studies of Mesopotamian and biblical classics. Part 3 is devoted to comparative studies of terms and phenomena. Part 4 examines legal texts.<br> <br> <br> <br> The Harvard Semitic Studies series publishes volumes from the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. Other series offered by Brill that publish volumes from the Museum include Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant and Harvard Semitic Monographs , https://hmane.harvard.edu/publications . |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ( xxiii, 379 pages) : illustrations, plates. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004435186 9004435182 9789004435179 |
| ISSN: | 0147-9342 ; |
