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Middle Eastern literature --- Mythology, Asian --- Mythology, Oriental --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Littérature moyen-orientale --- Mythologie asiatique --- Mythologie orientale --- Narration --- Mythology, Sumerian. --- Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Sumerian literature --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- History and criticism. --- History --- -Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian --- Mythology, Sumerian --- -Sumerian mythology --- Assyro-Babylonian mythology --- Babylonian mythology --- Mythology, Babylonian --- Akkadian literature --- Babylonian literature --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- History and criticism --- -History and criticism --- Littérature moyen-orientale --- Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Sumerian mythology --- Ancient rhetoric --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Sumerian literature - History and criticism. --- Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism. --- Narration (Rhetoric) - History - To 1500.

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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 of water was used, in particular the way it functions in the political and theological ideology of the time. Three literary motifs are the object of a careful study : the crossing of water, the flood and the water of abundance. Though their study shows diversity in evolution, transmission and reception, it appears that their function is common at the heart of the Mesopotamian political theology of royal mediation.

Iraq --- Water --- Political theology --- Water in the Bible. --- Cuneiform inscriptions. --- Water in literature. --- Sumerian literature --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Civilization --- Mythology --- History --- Religious aspects --- Political aspects --- History and criticism. --- -Water --- -Political theology --- -Water in the Bible. --- -Assyro-Babylonian literature --- -291.212.2 --- 892.1 --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Public theology --- Hydrology --- Akkadian literature --- Babylonian literature --- Inscriptions, Cuneiform --- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian --- Achaemenian inscriptions --- Cuneiform writing --- Old Persian inscriptions --- -Mythology --- -History --- -Religious aspects --- -Political aspects --- -History and criticism. --- Verering van water en bronnen. Hydrolatrie --- Akkadische, Sumerische literatuur --- 892.1 Akkadische, Sumerische literatuur --- 291.212.2 Verering van water en bronnen. Hydrolatrie --- Cuneiform inscriptions --- Water in literature --- Water in the Bible --- 291.212.2 --- History and criticism --- Irak --- Rāfidayn, Bilād --- Bilād al-Rāfidayn --- Republic of Iraq --- Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah --- Iraq - Civilization - To 634 - Sources --- Water - Mythology - Iraq - History - Sources --- Water - Iraq - Religious aspects - History - Sources --- Water - Political aspects - Iraq - History - Sources --- Political theology - Iraq - History - Sources --- Sumerian literature - History and criticism. --- Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism.