Akkadian royal letters in later Mesopotamian tradition /

Akkadian royal letters in later Mesopotamian tradition /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Frazer, Mary, author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]
Description:	xxi, 569 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cuneiform monographs, 0929-0052 ; volume 55
Subject:	Assyro-Babylonian letters. Akkadian language -- Texts. Akkadian language Assyro-Babylonian letters Kings and rulers Assyria -- Kings and rulers -- Correspondence. Babylonia -- Kings and rulers -- Correspondence. Iraq -- History -- To 634 -- Sources. Iraq Middle East -- Assyria Middle East -- Babylonia History Personal correspondence Sources Texts
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13551588

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ISBN:	9789004685932 9004685936 9789004685949
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Akkadian Royal Letters in Later Mespotamian Tradition reconsiders the question of the authenticity of the letters attributed to earlier royal correspondents that were studied in Assyrian and Babylonian scribal centres ca. 700-100 BCE. By scrutinizing the letters' contents, language, possible transmission histories ca. 1400-100 BCE and the epistemic limitations of authenticity criticism, the book grounds scepticism about the letters' authenticity in previously undiscussed features of the texts. It also provides a new foundation for research into the related questions of when and why these beguiling texts were composed in the first place"--

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of tables
List of figures
Introduction
The authenticity of letters A5-A17
Editions
A Note on the Text Editions
Category A Letters with identifiable historical settings
Category B Letters with uncertain historical settings
Category C Possible letters
Appendix 1: A5-A17 as potential sources for political history
Appendix 2: The hypothetical transmissions of Letters A5-A17
Bibliography
Index