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In The Exegetical Terminology of Akkadian Commentaries Uri Gabbay offers the first detailed study of the well-developed set of technical terms found in ancient Mesopotamian commentaries. Understanding the hermeneutical function of these terms is essential for reconstructing the ancient Mesopotamian exegetical tradition. Using the exegetical terminology attested in the large corpus of Akkadian commentaries from the first millennium BCE, the book addresses the hermeneutics of the commentaries, investigates the scholastic environment in which they were composed, and considers the relationship between the terminology of commentaries and the divine authority of the texts they elucidate. The book concludes with a comparative study that traces links between the terminology used in Akkadian commentaries and that used in early Hebrew exegesis.

Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Akkadian literature --- Babylonian literature --- Criticism, Textual

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Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia presents fresh and engaging translations of works that were composed or edited by female scribes and elite women of the ancient Near East. These texts provide insight into the social status, struggles, and achievements of women during the earliest periods of recorded human history (c.2300-540 BCE). In three introductory chapters and a concluding chapter, Charles Halton and Saana Svärd provide an overview of the civilization of ancient Mesopotamia and examine gender by analyzing these different kinds of texts. The translations cover a range of genres, including hymns, poems, prayers, letters, inscriptions, and oracles. Each text is accompanied by a short introduction that situates the composition within its ancient environment and explores what it reveals about the lives of women within the ancient world. This anthology will serve as an essential reference book for scholars and students of ancient history, gender studies, and world literature.

LITERARY CRITICISM / African. --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Civilization, Ancient. --- HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- Women authors. --- Iraq --- Civilization --- Ancient civilization --- Akkadian literature --- Babylonian literature

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Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Akkadian language --- History and criticism --- Texts --- 892.12 --- -Assyro-Babylonian literature --- -Akkadian literature --- Babylonian literature --- Accadian language --- Assyrian language --- Assyro-Babylonian language --- Babylonian language --- Semitic languages --- Assyrische literatuur --- Assyro-Babylonian literature. --- Texts. --- History and criticism. --- -Assyrische literatuur --- 892.12 Assyrische literatuur --- Akkadian literature --- Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism --- Akkadian language - Texts

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Scholars often assume that the nature of Mesopotamian kingship was such that questioning royal authority was impossible. This volume challenges that general assumption, by presenting an analysis of the motivations,methods, and motifs behind a scholarly discourse about kingship that arose in the final stages of the last Mesopotamian empires. The focus of the volume is the proliferation of a literature that problematizes authority in the Neo-Assyrian period, when texts first begin to specifically explore various modalities for critique of royalty. This development is symptomatic of a larger discourse about the limits of power that emerges after the repatriation of Marduk's statue to Babylon during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar I in the 12th century BCE. From this point onwards, public attitudes toward Marduk provide a framework for the definition of proper royal behavior, and become a point of contention between Assyria and Babylonia. It is in this historical and political context that several important Akkadian compositions are placed. The texts are analyzed from a new perspective that sheds light on their original milieux and intended functions.

Assyro-Babylonian literature. --- Marduk (Babylonian deity) --- Akkadian literature. --- Akkadische Literatur. --- Ashurbanipal. --- Assurbanipal. --- Marduk. --- Sanherib. --- Sennacherib. --- Gods, Assyro-Babylonian --- Akkadian literature --- Babylonian literature --- Iraq --- Assyria --- Irak --- Rāfidayn, Bilād --- Bilād al-Rāfidayn --- Republic of Iraq --- Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah --- History --- Kings and rulers. --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Kings and rulers in literature. --- History and criticism.