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 Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13545180

Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:	9004435182 9789004435186 9789004435179
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 19, 2020).
Summary:	"In this volume, Tzvi Abusch presents studies written over a span of forty years that were completed 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. The volume begins with general articles on Mesopotamian magic, religion, and mythology; these are followed by a set of articles on Akkadian prayers, especially šuillas, focusing, first of all, on exegetical and linguistic (synchronic) studies and, then, on diachronic analyses; part two contains a series of literary studies of Mesopotamian and biblical classics; part three is devoted to comparative studies of terms and phenomena; finally, the fourth part takes up texts that are of legal interest"--
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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