Essays on Babylonian and biblical literature and religion /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Abusch, I. Tzvi, author.
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.
Subject:	Assyro-Babylonian religion. Magic, Assyro-Babylonian. Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian. Assyro-Babylonian religion -- Prayers and devotions -- History and criticism. Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian. Assyro-Babylonian literature -- Relation to the Old Testament. Assyro-Babylonian literature -- Relation to the Old Testament Assyro-Babylonian religion Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian Magic, Assyro-Babylonian Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian Assyria -- Religious life and customs. Babylonia -- Religious life and customs. Middle East -- Assyria Middle East -- Babylonia
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12528973

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ISBN:	9789004435186 9004435182 9789004435179
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 19, 2020).
Other form:	Print version: Abusch, I. Tzvi. Essays on Babylonian and biblical literature and religion Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] 9789004435179

Table of Contents:

Mesopotamian religion
Magic in Mesopotamia
Sacrifice in Mesopotamia
Ghost and god : some observations on a Babylonian understanding of human
Etemmu
Ištar
Marduk
Prayers, hymns, and incantations : Mesopotamia
The promise to praise the god in šuilla prayers
The form and meaning of a Babylonian prayer to Marduk
The form and history of a Babylonian prayer to Nabû
A paean and petition to a god of death : some comments on a šuilla to Nergal
The reconciliation of angry personal gods : a revision of the šuillas
Two versions of a šuilla to Gula
Fortune and misfortune of the individual : some observations on the sufferer's plaint in Ludlul bēl nēmeqi II 12-32
Kingship in ancient Mesopotamia : the case of Enūma eliš
Some observations on the Babylon section of Enūma eliš
Biblical accounts of prehistory : their meaning and formation
Two passages in the biblical account of prehistory
Jonah and God : plants, beasts, and humans in the book of Jonah (an essay in interpretation)
Alaktu and Halakhah : oracular decision, divine revelation
Blood in Israel and Mesopotamia
Cultures in contact : ancient Near Eastern and Jewish magic
A shepherd's bulla and an owner's receipt : a pair of matching texts in the Harvard Semitic Museum
"He should continue to bear the penalty of that case" : some observations on Codex Ḫammurabi [double section symbol]3-4 and [section symbol]13.

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