Light in the Gagûm window: the Sippar Cloister in the Late Old Babylonian period Sheep and cattle, cows and calves: the Sumero-Akkadian astral gods as livestock Coherence and fragments: reflections on the SKL and the Book fo Judges Early non-cuneiform writing? Third-millenium BC…
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.
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
This book investigates a corpus of royal inscriptions and literary texts, with special emphasis on those that are mythological and biblical, stretching over several millennia from the early days of Sumer to the Biblical period, in order to determine the ways in which the concept…
