With topics ranging from social and economic history to literature, language, and to art history and arachaeology, the essays in his book reflect the broad spectrum of interests of its honoree, Benjamin R. Foster.
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Introduction -- pt. 1. La traversée de l'eau. Analyse historique du motif de la traversée en Mésopotamie -- La traversée entre mythe et histoire : vers une définition de la théologie royale en Mésopotamie -- La traversée biblique -- pt. 2. Le Déluge. Analyse historique du motif …
This book investigates a corpus of royal inscriptions and literary texts stretching over several millennia from the early days of Sumer to the Biblical period, in order to determine the ways in which the concept of water was used
Against the long-standing and prevalent belief that Mesopotamian Flood traditions came from very early time in Mesopotamian cultural history, this book argues that the traditions emerged relatively late in Sumerian traditions. Through a systematic examination of the relevant cun…