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Author : Adele Berlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Enmerkar and Ensuhkešdanna written by Adele Berlin and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dr Gwendolyn Leick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134641028
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology written by Dr Gwendolyn Leick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology covers sources from Mesopotamia, Syro-Palestine and Anatolia, from around 2800 to 300 BC. It contains entries on gods and goddesses, giving evidence of their worship in temples, describing their 'character', as documented by the texts, and defining their roles within the body of mythological narratives; synoptic entries on myths, giving the place of origin of main texts and a brief history of their transmission through the ages; and entries explaining the use of specialist terminology, for such things as categories of Sumerian texts or types of mythological figures.
Author : Joan Goodnick Westenholz
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 0931464854
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Legends of the Kings of Akkade written by Joan Goodnick Westenholz and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most impressive legacy of the Dynasty of Akkade (ca. 2310-2160 B.C.E.) was the widespread, popular legends of its kings. Dr. Westenholz offers an annotated edition of all the known legends of the Akkadian kings, with transliteration, translation, and commentary. Of particular interest to biblical scholars is the inclusion of "The Birth Legend of Sargon," which is often compared to Moses in Exodus.
Author : Martti Nissinen
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 157506572X
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Sacred Marriages written by Martti Nissinen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2008-06-23 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this volume, Sacred Marriages, consciously plays with the traditional concept of sacred marriage, but the plural form, “sacred marriages,” gives the reader an idea that something more is at stake here than a monomaniacal idea of manifestations deriving from a single prototype. Following the guidelines of one of the contributors, Ruben Zimmermann, the editors tentatively define “sacred marriage” as a “real or symbolic union of two complementary entities, imagined as gendered, in a religious context.” “Sacred marriages” (plural), then, refers to various expressions of this kind of union in different cultures that seek to overcome, to cite Zimmermann again, “the great dualism of human and cosmic existence.” The subtitle indicates that the contributors are primarily interested in different aspects of the divine-human sexual metaphor—that is, the imagining and reenactment of a gendered relationship between the human and divine worlds. This metaphor, which is essentially about relationship rather than sexual acts, can find textual, ritual, mythical, and social expressions in different times and places. Indeed, the sacred marriage ritual itself should be considered not a manifestation of the “sacralized power of sexuality experienced in sexual intercourse” but one way of objectifying the divine-human sexual metaphor.
Author : William W. Hallo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004173811
Total Pages : 801 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The World's Oldest Literature written by William W. Hallo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature begins at Sumer, we may say. Given that this ancient crossroads of tin and copper produced not only bronze and the entire Bronze Age, but also by neccesity, the first system of record-keeping and the technique of writing. Scribal schools served to propogate the new technique and their curriculum grew to create, preserve and transmit all manner of creative poetry. In a lifetime of research, the author has studied multiple aspects of this most ancient literary oeuvre, including such questions as chronology and bilingualism, as well as contributing fundamental insights into specific genres such as proverbs, letter-prayers and lamentations. In addition, he has drawn conclusions for the comparative or contextual approach to biblical literature. His studies, widely scattered in diverse publications for nearly fifty years, are here assembled in convenient one-volume format, made more user-friendly by extensive cross-references and indices.
Author : Victor Hurowitz
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567498824
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (674 download)
Download or read book I Have Built You an Exalted House written by Victor Hurowitz and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This close synchronic analysis of Exodus 1-2 looks at how the pericope's structure, language, focalization and management of information form its conception and judgement of its events and characters. A coherence of concerns is detectable in Exodus 1-2 with allusions to Genesis and the later chapters of Exodus. One chapter is assigned to each of seven narrative unities and deals in various ways with its narrative problems. The resulting eclectic choice of analytical tools includes the study of Proppian structural functions, repetition, public rhetoric, narrative speeds, order and symbolism.
Author : Charles Penglase
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134729294
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Greek Myths and Mesopotamia written by Charles Penglase and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mesopotamian influence on Greek mythology in literary works of the epic period is considerable - yet it is a largely unexplored field. In this book Charles Penglase investigates major Mesopotamian and Greek myths. His examination concentrates on journey myths. A major breakthrough is achieved in the recognition of the extent of Mesopotamian influence and in the understanding of the colourful myths involved. The results are of significant interest, especially to scholars and students of ancient Greek and Near Eastern religion and mythology.
Author : Gwendolyn Leick
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810863243
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia written by Gwendolyn Leick and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek name Mesopotamia means 'land between the rivers.' The Romans used this term for an area that they controlled only briefly (between 115 and 117 A.D.): the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, from the south Anatolian mountains ranges to the Persian Gulf. It comprises the civilizations of Sumer and Akkad (third millennium B.C.) as well as the later Babylonian and Assyrian empires of the second and first millennium. Although the 'history' of Mesopotamia in the strict sense of the term only begins with the inscriptions of Sumerian rulers around the 27th century B.C., the foundations for Mesopotamian civilization, especially the beginnings of irrigation and the emergence of large permanent settlements, were laid much earlier, in the fifth and fourth millennium. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia defines concepts, customs, and notions peculiar to the civilization of ancient Mesopotamia, from adult adoption to ziggurats. This is accomplished through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, and hundreds of cross-reference dictionary entries on religion, economy, society, geography, and important kings and rulers.
Author : Jean-Jacques Glassner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004130845
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Mesopotamian Chronicles written by Jean-Jacques Glassner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This English translation of Glassner s Chroniques Mésopotamiennes (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1993) collects all chronicle literature of ancient Mesopotamia from the early second millenium to Seleucid times. The volume, which incorporates revisions and additions by the author and a transcription of the cuneiform, includes every example of Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian historiographic literature, and magisterial essays on the genre and on Mesopotamian historiography in general.Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
Author : Wilfred G. E. Watson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567598195
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)
Download or read book Traditional Techniques in Classical Hebrew Verse written by Wilfred G. E. Watson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before, during and after the preparation of Classical Hebrew Poetry: A Guide to its Techniques, Wilfred Watson published several articles on Hebrew poetry in a wide range of periodicals. The present volume collects together the most significant of these writings, including a chapter from a book on chiasmus, as well as a few unpublished items. After an opening survey of current work on Hebrew verse the articles cover the following topics: parallelism (including half-line parallelism, previously almost unnoticed), antithesis, word pairs, chiasmus, figurative language and introductions to speech in verse. The last section deals with structural devices and a folktale motif in narrative verse, hyperbole, apostrophe and alliteration. Previously unpublished items are on the contribution of ethnopoetics, from the study of Native American literature to Hebrew narrative verse (a new topic in biblical studies), parallelism in the Song of Songs and a metaphor in Jeremiah. This anthology is intended as a companion volume to Classical Hebrew Poetry. It includes additions and corrections to that book and there are also several indices.
Author : David Leeming
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195156692
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to World Mythology written by David Leeming and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interesting and lively book that contains articles on heros, villains, mythologists and mythological approaches.
Author : Richard A. Henshaw
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556350155
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)
Download or read book Female and Male: The Cultic Personnel: The Bible and the Rest of the Ancient Near East written by Richard A. Henshaw and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil Forsyth
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691214603
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Old Enemy written by Neil Forsyth and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description for this book, The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth, will be forthcoming.
Author : Wayne Horowitz
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 0931464994
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography written by Wayne Horowitz and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Campion
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441199748
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book A History of Western Astrology Volume I written by Nicholas Campion and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shlomo Izre'el
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 1575060485
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Adapa and the South Wind written by Shlomo Izre'el and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scholarly world first became aware of the myth of Adapa and the South Wind when it was discovered on a tablet from the El-Amarna archive in 1887. We now have at our disposal six fragments of the myth. The largest and most important fragment, from Amarna, is dated to the 14th century B.C.E. This fragment of the Adapa myth has red-tinted points applied on the tablet at specific intervals. Izre'el draws attention to a few of these points that were missed in previous publications by Knudtzon and Schroeder. Five other fragments were part of the Assurbanipal library and are representative of this myth as it was known in Assyria about seven centuries later. The discovery of the myth of Adapa and the South Wind immediately attracted wide attention. Its ideology and its correspondence to the intellectual heritage of Western religions precipitated flourishing studies of this myth, both philological and substantive. Many translations have appeared during the past century, shedding light on various aspects of the myth and its characters. Izre'el unveils the myth of Adapa and the South Wind as mythos, as story. To do this, he analyzes the underlying concepts through extensive treatment of form. He offers an edition of the extant fragments of the myth, including the transliterated Akkadian text, a translation, and a philological commentary. The analysis of poetic form that follows leads to understanding the myth as a piece of literature and to uncovering its meanings. This study therefore marks a new phase in the long, extensive research into this Mesopotamian myth.
Author : Deborah Chester
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 178499605X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book The fantasy fiction formula written by Deborah Chester and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's more to writing a successful fantasy story than building a unique world or inventing new magic. How exactly is a plot put together? How do you know if your idea will support an entire novel? How do you grab reader attention and keep it? How do you create dynamic, multi-dimensional characters? What is viewpoint and do you handle it differently in urban fantasy than in traditional epics? What should you do if you're lost in the middle? How do you make your plot end up where you intend it to go? From the writing of strong, action-packed scenes to the handling of emotions, let award-winning fantasy author Deborah Chester guide you through the process of putting a book together. Convinced there's no need to shroud the writing process under a veil of mystery, Chester supplies tips that are both practical and proven. They are exactly what she uses in writing her own novels and what she teaches in her writing courses at the University of Oklahoma. Along with explaining story construction step-by-step, Chester illustrates each technique with examples drawn from both traditional and urban fantasy. The technique chapters include exercises to assist novices in mastering the craft of writing fantasy as well as suggestions for avoiding or solving plot problems. More experienced writers will find tips for taking their work to the next level. With an introduction by author Jim Butcher, The fantasy fiction formula provides the information you need to gain skill and proficiency in writing fantasy like a pro.
