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The Flood : the Akkadian sources : a new edition, commentary, and a literary discussion
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ISBN: 9789042941731 9042941731 904294174X Year: 2020 Volume: 290 Publisher: Leuven, Belgium ; Paris ; Bristol, Connecticut : Peeters,

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"The story of the primeval cataclysmic flood which wiped out all life on earth, save for one family, is found in different ancient Mesopotamian texts whence it reached the Biblical and Classical literary traditions. The present book systematically collects the earliest attestations of the myth of the Flood, namely all the cuneiform-written Akkadian sources - from the Old Babylonian to the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods, including Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh -, presenting them in a new synoptic edition and English translation which are accompanied by a detailed philological commentary and an extensive literary discussion. The book also includes a complete glossary of the Akkadian sources"--


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Ea's duplicity in the Gilgamesh flood story
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ISBN: 9781138388925 1138388920 Year: 2020 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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"This volume opens up new perspectives on Babylonian and Assyrian literature, through the lens of a pivotal passage in the Gilgamesh Flood story. It shows how, using a nine-line message where not all was as it seemed, the god Ea inveigled humans into building the Ark. The volume argues that Ea used a 'bitextual' message: one which can be understood in different ways that sound the same. His message thus emerges as an ambivalent oracle in the tradition of 'folktale prophecy'. The argument is supported by interlocking investigations of lexicography, divination, diet, figurines, social history, and religion. There are also extended discussions of Babylonian word play and ancient literary interpretation. Besides arguing for Ea's duplicity, the book explores its implications - for narrative sophistication in Gilgamesh, for audiences and performance of the poem, and for the relation of the Gilgamesh Flood story to the versions in Atra-hasis, the Hellenistic historian Berossos, and the Biblical Book of Genesis. Ea's Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story will interest Assyriologists, Hebrew Bible scholars and Classicists, but also students and researchers in all areas concerned with Gilgamesh, word play, oracles, and traditions about the Flood"--


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Les historiens croient-ils aux mythes ?
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ISBN: 9782859449735 2859449736 9791035104153 Year: 2020 Publisher: Paris : Éditions de la Sorbonne,

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Ce volume est le fruit d’une réflexion collective des historiens et historiennes de l’université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Il en partage donc les caractères : refus des cloisonnements, choix de la longue durée qui court ici de la Babylonie antique au temps présent, participation de jeunes chercheurs comme d’historiens confirmés. Il interroge l’usage que les historiens font du « mythe » qu’ils considèrent autant sous sa dimension restreinte de « récit fondateur » et transhistorique, que sous son acception plus moderne et sociologique, qui a trait à quelques motifs imaginaires partagés. Il y est donc question d’Amazones et de vampires, de Déluge et de Révolution, de royaumes fabuleux, de sorcières et d’âge d’or de la civilisation. Plus que le rapport entre le vrai et le faux, c’est la rationalité et l’historicité de ces croyances du passé en leur temps que ce livre s’attache à sonder.

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