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The Babylonian Theodicy is a lengthy dialogue between two learned men, the “Sufferer” and the “Friend,” taking the form of an acrostic poem divided into 27 stanzas. Each stanza is exactly 11 lines long and represents a speech by one of the two speakers mainly on social injustice and piety, those of the Sufferer alternating with counterarguments of the Friend. The text unquestionably is a literary masterpiece and, as one of the most important pieces of Mesopotamian wisdom literature, a must for every aspiring Assyriologist. Because of its many affinities with the biblical book of Job, it also is of obvious interest to biblical scholars, theologians, and students of Ancient Near Eastern religions.This volume, based on nine different manuscripts (two of them new) and numerous new joins, offers the most complete edition of the text available so far. It is now possible to fully or partially recover 272 of the original 297 lines of the composition. The cuneiform text, sign list and glossary attached to the edition make it possible for the first time to read the entire composition in class. The volume also contains an up-to-date introduction to the text, a bibliography of previous studies, and a detailed philological commentary.

Akkadian language --- Assyro-Babylonian poetry. --- Akkadien (Langue) --- Poésie assyro-babylonienne --- Texts. --- Textes --- Babylonian theodicy. --- Poésie assyro-babylonienne --- Assyro-Babylonian poetry --- Akkadian language - Texts --- Akkadien (langue) --- Littérature assyro-babylonienne. --- Inscriptions cunéiformes.

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Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Littérature assyro-babylonienne --- Sumerian literature --- Littérature sumérienne --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Iraq --- Irak --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Littérature assyro-babylonienne --- Littérature sumérienne --- Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism. --- Sumerian literature - History and criticism.

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Bible OT. Major prophets. Isaiah --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Idols and images --- Littérature assyro-babylonienne --- Idoles et images --- Relation to the Old Testament. --- Biblical teaching. --- Relation avec l'Ancien Testament --- Enseignement biblique --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Theology. --- 224.22 --- Deuterojesaja--(kap. 40-55) --- 224.22 Deuterojesaja--(kap. 40-55) --- Littérature assyro-babylonienne

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The Adapa myth is a literary work of ancient Mesopotamia with different versions in Sumerian and Akkadian. According to the Adapa myth, the sage and cook from Eridu goes fishing to the Persian Gulf, where the South Wind capsizes his boat. The sage’s curse breaks the wing of the South Wind. Adapa lies seven days in the ocean, whence he is summoned to heaven, to be positively judged by the sky god Anu. The present book investigates the literary development of the Adapa myth and argues that it represents an exorcistic version of the flood story with the protagonist as priest. In the Adapa myth, the primordial sage survives the flood, which serves as ideological background for exorcism, āšipūtu. The exorcist, who used fire and water as sanitizing substances during the rituals, impersonated Adapa, who had gone through an extreme form of purification himself. Adapa’s critical period in the sea was the symbolic etiology for illnesses, difficult births, witchcraft, bad omens, sin, and imprisonment, which the exorcist was able to counter. The deluge was a symbol of water ordeal and judgment, for which the exorcist’s assistance was sought. Because Adapa was given rebirth from his disaster, the human exorcist as his embodiment possessed the powers of the flood in manipulating the purifying substances and incantations against all misfortune. The identity constituting narrative of ancient Mesopotamian exorcism is explored with a methodology combining the intertextual studies with cognitive neuroscience.

Adapa (Assyro-Babylonian mythology) --- Exorcism in literature --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Adapa (Mythologie assyro-babylonienne) --- Exorcisme dans la littérature --- Littérature assyro-babylonienne --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Exorcism in literature. --- Exorcisme dans la littérature --- Littérature assyro-babylonienne --- History and criticism --- Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism

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This volume contains previously unpublished Akkadian narrative, praise, and love poetry, new prose compositions, riddles and legal prescriptions.

Akkadian language --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Akkadien (Langue) --- Littérature assyro-babylonienne --- Texts --- History and criticism --- Textes --- Histoire et critique --- Schyen Collection --- History and criticism. --- Schøyen Collection. --- Littérature assyro-babylonienne --- Schøyen Collection --- Schøyen Collection of Western Manuscripts --- Akkadian language - Texts --- Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism --- Akkadien (langue)