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"Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia presents fresh and engaging translations of works that were composed or edited by female scribes and elite women of the ancient Near East. These texts provide insight into the social status, struggles, and achievements of women during the earliest periods of recorded human history (c.2300-540 BCE). In three introductory chapters and a concluding chapter, Charles Halton and Saana Svärd provide an overview of the civilization of ancient Mesopotamia and examine gender by analyzing these different kinds of texts. The translations cover a range of genres, including hymns, poems, prayers, letters, inscriptions, and oracles. Each text is accompanied by a short introduction that situates the composition within its ancient environment and explores what it reveals about the lives of women within the ancient world. This anthology will serve as an essential reference book for scholars and students of ancient history, gender studies, and world literature"-- "These texts provide insight into the social status, struggles, and achievements of women during the earliest periods of recorded human history (ca. 2300 - 540 BCE). In three introductory chapters and a concluding chapter, Charles Halton and Saana Svard provide an overview of the civilization of ancient Mesopotamia and examine gender by analyzing these different kinds of texts. The translations cover a range of genres, including hymns, poems, prayers, letters, inscriptions, and oracles"--

LITERARY CRITICISM / African. --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Civilization, Ancient. --- HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- Women authors. --- Iraq --- Civilization --- Ancient civilization --- Akkadian literature --- Babylonian literature

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Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Akkadian language --- History and criticism --- Texts --- 892.12 --- -Assyro-Babylonian literature --- -Akkadian literature --- Babylonian literature --- Accadian language --- Assyrian language --- Assyro-Babylonian language --- Babylonian language --- Semitic languages --- Assyrische literatuur --- Assyro-Babylonian literature. --- Texts. --- History and criticism. --- -Assyrische literatuur --- 892.12 Assyrische literatuur --- Akkadian literature --- Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism --- Akkadian language - Texts

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Scholars often assume that the nature of Mesopotamian kingship was such that questioning royal authority was impossible. This volume challenges that general assumption, by presenting an analysis of the motivations,methods, and motifs behind a scholarly discourse about kingship that arose in the final stages of the last Mesopotamian empires. The focus of the volume is the proliferation of a literature that problematizes authority in the Neo-Assyrian period, when texts first begin to specifically explore various modalities for critique of royalty. This development is symptomatic of a larger discourse about the limits of power that emerges after the repatriation of Marduk's statue to Babylon during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar I in the 12th century BCE. From this point onwards, public attitudes toward Marduk provide a framework for the definition of proper royal behavior, and become a point of contention between Assyria and Babylonia. It is in this historical and political context that several important Akkadian compositions are placed. The texts are analyzed from a new perspective that sheds light on their original milieux and intended functions.

Assyro-Babylonian literature. --- Marduk (Babylonian deity) --- Akkadian literature. --- Akkadische Literatur. --- Ashurbanipal. --- Assurbanipal. --- Marduk. --- Sanherib. --- Sennacherib. --- Gods, Assyro-Babylonian --- Akkadian literature --- Babylonian literature --- Iraq --- Assyria --- Irak --- Rāfidayn, Bilād --- Bilād al-Rāfidayn --- Republic of Iraq --- Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah --- History --- Kings and rulers. --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Kings and rulers in literature. --- History and criticism.

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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.

Assyro-Babylonian literature. --- Legends --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- -Akkadian literature --- Babylonian literature --- Folk tales --- Traditions --- Urban legends --- Folklore --- Babylonia --- -Kings and rulers --- Littérature assyro-babylonienne --- Babylone --- Kings and rulers --- Rois et souverains --- Akkadian literature --- Vavilonii︠a︡ --- Bavel --- Bābil --- Babylonien --- Sumer --- Kings and rulers. --- Legends. --- Middle East --- Czars (Kings and rulers) --- Kings and rulers, Primitive --- Monarchs --- Royalty --- Rulers --- Sovereigns --- Tsars --- Tzars --- Heads of state --- Queens --- Orient --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Vavilonii͡

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This volume continues the publication of the important Mesopotamian omen collection Shumma Alu, with text editions of Tablets 41 through 63. After the omen texts dealing with the examination of entrails of sacrifical animals and the omens dealing with astrological phenomena, this collection ranks as next in importance. This book thus constitutes the presentation of a primary edition of an important portion of ancient Mesopotamian religious and social literature.‹/p›The first two volumes of this publication appeared in 1998 and 2006 and are still in print and available from Eisenbrauns.

Akkadian language --- Omens --- Akkadien (Langue) --- Présages --- Texts --- Textes --- Omens. --- Portents --- Prodigies (Omens) --- Signs (Omens) --- Superstition --- Signs and symbols --- Assyro-Babylonian literature. --- Akkadian language. --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Akkadian literature --- Babylonian literature --- Accadian language --- Assyrian language --- Assyro-Babylonian language --- Babylonian language --- Semitic languages --- Akkadian language - Texts