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.
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.
Martin Worthington is Associate Professor in Middle Eastern Studies in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface; Acknowledgments; Copyright credits; Abbreviations; Conventions PART I - Preliminaries; 1 Introduction; 2 'Interrogating' Babylonian narrative poetry; 3 'Identifying' puns; 4 The high concentration of puns in the Gilgame Flood story; PART II - Dissecting Ea's message; 5 The lines about the Flood hero; 6 Raining 'plenty': uaznanakkun i nuham-ma; 7 The birds: [hi ib] i r ti; 8 The fish: puzur n n ; 9 The harvest: [...] merâ eb ram-ma; 10 'Cakes at dawn': ina r(-)kukk ; 11 'In the evening': ina l lâti; 12 The 'rain of wheat': amût kib ti; 13 Recapitulation; 14 Issues of textual history; 15 Meaning and performance; PART III - Conspicuous silences in the Gilgame Flood story; 16 Outlining the problems; 17 Does Atra-has s 'fill in the gaps'?; 18 Communications between Ea and the Flood hero; 19 Communication between the Flood hero and the people of uruppak; 20 Ea's elusiveness; 21 The enigma of Uta-napiti; 22 Why the 'gaps'?; PART IV - Other interconnections; 23 Ea's duplicity and Babylonian/Assyrian divination; 24 Beyond Cuneiform; 25 Conclusions; References; Alphabetical index; Index locurum
Preface; Acknowledgments; Copyright credits; Abbreviations; Conventions PART I - Preliminaries; 1 Introduction; 2 'Interrogating' Babylonian narrative poetry; 3 'Identifying' puns; 4 The high concentration of puns in the Gilgame Flood story; PART II - Dissecting Ea's message; 5 The lines about the Flood hero; 6 Raining 'plenty': uaznanakkun i nuham-ma; 7 The birds: [hi ib] i r ti; 8 The fish: puzur n n ; 9 The harvest: [...] merâ eb ram-ma; 10 'Cakes at dawn': ina r(-)kukk ; 11 'In the evening': ina l lâti; 12 The 'rain of wheat': amût kib ti; 13 Recapitulation; 14 Issues of textual history; 15 Meaning and performance; PART III - Conspicuous silences in the Gilgame Flood story; 16 Outlining the problems; 17 Does Atra-has s 'fill in the gaps'?; 18 Communications between Ea and the Flood hero; 19 Communication between the Flood hero and the people of uruppak; 20 Ea's elusiveness; 21 The enigma of Uta-napiti; 22 Why the 'gaps'?; PART IV - Other interconnections; 23 Ea's duplicity and Babylonian/Assyrian divination; 24 Beyond Cuneiform; 25 Conclusions; References; Alphabetical index; Index locurum
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