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Les nomades en Mésopotamie au temps des rois de Mari
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ISBN: 2251661425 2821828802 9782821828803 Year: 1982 Publisher: Paris : Les Belles Lettres,

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Education in early 2nd millennium BC Babylonia : the Sumerian epistolary miscellany
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ISBN: 9789004212428 9789004214231 9004214232 1283270757 9781283270755 9004212426 9786613270757 661327075X Year: 2011 Volume: 42 Publisher: Boston : Brill,

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This book examines a collection of twenty-two literary letters and related compositions – the Sumerian Epistolary Miscellany (SEpM) – studied as part of the Old Babylonian Sumerian scribal curriculum, in an attempt to better understand the education system at this time. The author includes discussion of the nature of the letters as scribal inventions, the pedagogical function of literary letters and compilation tablets, as well as the creation, implementation and consistency of the advanced Sumerian scribal curriculum. The volume also contains critical editions of SEpM as well as ancillary Sumerian letters studied in the Nippur schools, the majority of which were previously unpublished.

Rulers of Babylonia : from the second dynasty of Isin to the end of Assyrian domination (1157-612 BC)
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ISBN: 0802007244 1442623748 1442657057 9781442657052 9781442623743 9781442623743 Year: 1995 Volume: 2 Publisher: Toronto, Ont : University of Toronto Press,


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Babylon under western eyes
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ISBN: 1442625120 9781442625129 9781442637337 1442637331 9781442625136 1442625139 Year: 2016 Publisher: Toronto Buffalo London

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"Combining remarkable erudition with a clear and accessible style, Babylon under Western Eyes is the first comprehensive examination of Babylon's significance within the pantheon of western literature and a testimonial to the continuing influence of biblical, classical, and medieval paradigms in modern culture."-- "Babylon under Western Eyes examines the mythic legacy of ancient Babylon, the Near Eastern city which has served western culture as a metaphor for power, luxury, and exotic magnificence for more than two thousand years. Sifting through the many references to Babylon in biblical, classical, medieval, and modern texts, Andrew Scheil uses Babylon's remarkable literary ubiquity as the foundation for a thorough analysis of the dynamics of adaptation and allusion in western literature. Touching on everything from Old English poetry to the contemporary apocalyptic fiction of the "Left Behind" series, Scheil outlines how medieval Christian society and its cultural successors have adopted Babylon as a political metaphor, a degenerate archetype, and a place associated with the sublime."--


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Babel : ordre ou chaos ? : Nouveaux enjeux du mythe dans les œuvres de la Modernité littéraire
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ISSN: 12777749 ISBN: 9782843101779 2843101778 2377471188 Year: 2018 Volume: *3 Publisher: Grenoble : UGA Éditions,

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La perte de la langue unique est-elle vraiment un drame ? À lire les travaux de nombreux critiques, exégètes ou philosophes contemporains, on pourrait en douter. Si l'image de la tour inachevée évoque encore pour certains un champ de ruines, l'univers babélien qui est le nôtre, celui du multiple, tend souvent désormais à être considéré comme une bienheureuse nécessité - un ordre, au sens le plus noble du terme. La littérature moderne a joué un rôle crucial dans cette volonté d'en finir avec une image négative de Babel. Mais en reprenant ce vieux mythe biblique, des écrivains comme Kafka, Dos Passos, Borges, Pierre Emmanuel ou Paul Auster ne se sont pas contentés d'ouvrir la voie à un renversement axiologique : ils ont subtilement mis au jour le substrat politique, éthique et philosophique du récit, et souligné, en particulier, les enjeux herméneutique et téléologique qui lui sont attachés. Ordre et chaos n'existent qu'à la faveur d'un sens et d'une finalité à l'aune desquels il est possible de les évaluer.

Legends of the Kings of Akkade : the texts
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ISBN: 0931464854 1575063115 1575065037 Year: 1997 Volume: 7 Publisher: Winona Lake, IN : Eisenbrauns,

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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.

Ur III period (2112-2004 BC)
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ISBN: 0802041981 1442623764 1442657065 9781442657069 9780802041982 Year: 1997 Volume: v. 3/2 Publisher: Toronto, Ont : University of Toronto Press,

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This volume provides editions of all known royal inscriptions of the five kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur (2112-2004 BC), from Ur-Nammu to Ibbi-Sin, as well as those of contemporaneous rulers of states on the periphery of the Ur III empire (excluding Elam). Ur III Period contains the first complete edition of the Fu-Sin inscriptions, the most complete and up-to-date information on the members of the Ur III royal family, and the first published charts of Ur III city governors, providing a wealth of new material for researchers.Douglas Frayne has provided indexes of museum numbers, excavation numbers, provenances, dimensions, and lines preserved of the various exemplars in an easy-to-read tabular mode. The accompanying microfiche, now incorporated at the back of the book, displays the text of selected inscriptions in a "musical score" format. Most of the inscriptions are in Sumerian, with a few in Akkadian and one in Hurrian.Ur III Period (2112-2004 BC) is yet another exhaustively researched and substantial contribution to the RIM project, and to the study of ancient Mesopotamia.

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