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"The volume The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia offers an overview of the study of emotions in ancient texts, discusses the concept of emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and shows how emotions are described in the ancient texts. In the section dedicated to Ancient Egypt, scholars discuss emotions such as fear, depression, anger, feelings of pain, envy, jealousy and greed, with evidence from different text genres, as well as emotions from the Late Ramesside Letters and royal inscriptions. In the section dedicated to Ancient Mesopotamia, scholars present a wide range of perspectives on Sumerian and Akkadian literary and archival texts that treat emotions in different periods"--

Emotions in literature. --- Egyptian literature --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- History and criticism. --- Emotions in literature --- History and criticism --- Egyptian literature - History and criticism --- Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism

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This book initiates the reader into the study of Akkadian literature from ancient Babylonia and Assyria. With this one relatively short volume, the novice reader will develop the literary competence necessary to read and interpret Akkadian texts in translation and will gain a broad familiarity with the major genres and compositions in the language.The first part of the book presents introductory discussions of major critical issues, organized under four key rubrics: tablets, scribes, compositions, and audiences. Here, the reader will find descriptions of the tablets used as writing material; the training scribes received and the institutional contexts in which they worked; the general characteristics of Akkadian compositions, with an emphasis on poetic and literary features; and the various audiences or users of Akkadian texts. The second part surveys the corpus of Akkadian literature defined inclusively, canvasing a wide spectrum of compositions. Legal codes, historical inscriptions, divinatory compendia, and religious texts have a place in the survey alongside narrative poems, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enuma elish, and Babylonian Theodicy. Extensive footnotes and a generous bibliography guide readers who wish to continue their study.

Assyro-Babylonian literature --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Sumerian language --- Akkadian language --- Cuneiform tablets --- Urusagrig (Extinct city) --- History --- Assyro-Babylonian literature. --- Akkadisch. --- Literatur. --- Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism

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Who were the Umman-manda? This is a question that has vexed Assyriologists since the early days of the discipline, particularly because the question has different answers at different times and in different places: Hurrians, Elamites, Medes, Cimmerians, Scythians—all have been cast as the Umman-manda by various peoples at various times.With intractable questions such as this, it is useful on occasion to recapitulate all the evidence that applies to the question, to integrate new evidence that has appeared since the last recapitulation, and to see if a new synthesis of the evidence is possible. In this work, Adalı does precisely that. After collecting all the textual references to the Umman-manda, the author analyzes the writings, surveys the eytmologies proposed for the term Umman-manda over the years, and finally offers a new proposal for the etymology. He then investigates the nonliterary texts that mention the Umman-manda, seeking clues to their origins and ethnic makeup, finding, as others have, that the evidence is inconclusive and sometimes even contradictory.Turning to the literary texts as a source for the Umman-manda, the author finds more fertile ground. Leaving aside the potential historical kernel of the Cuthaean Legend of Naram-Sin because the available evidence does not speak to this issue, Adalı turns his investigation to the Umman-manda as a literary topos. By investigating the motifs and terminology used in the Cuthaean Legend and comparing them with similar usage in other literary works, the author is able to establish a leitmotif for the Umman-manda and then identify this leitmotif in the royal inscriptions of Assyrian and Babylonian kings.While the question of who the original Umman-manda were remains a mystery, Adalı’s work offers new insights and a new outlook on the significance of the Umman-manda in the first millennium and particularly on the question of why the Umman-manda meant different things to different people at different times while, nevertheless, not all enemies were referred to as “Umman-Manda.” It provides a new departure point for further investigations of the Umman-manda as well as for the use of literary allusions in both Assyro-Babylonian literature and royal inscriptions.

Akkadian language --- Akkadian philology. --- Akkadien (Langue) --- Philologie akkadienne --- Terms and phrases. --- Texts. --- Mots et locutions --- Textes --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Legends --- History and criticism. --- Assyria --- Iraq --- Antiquities. --- History. --- Akkadian philology --- Terms and phrases --- History and criticism --- Antiquities --- History --- Akkadian language - Terms and phrases --- Akkadian language - Texts --- Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism --- Legends - Middle East --- Assyria - Antiquities --- Iraq - History

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Akkadian literature --- Middle Eastern literature --- Littérature moyen-orientale --- History and criticism --- Congresses --- Histoire et critique --- Congrès --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Congresses. --- -Assyro-Babylonian literature --- -Akkadian literature --- Babylonian literature --- Near Eastern literature --- -Congresses --- -History and criticism --- Littérature moyen-orientale --- Congrès --- History and criticism&delete& --- Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism - Congresses --- Middle Eastern literature - History and criticism - Congresses

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This volume contains previously unpublished Akkadian narrative, praise, and love poetry, new prose compositions, riddles and legal prescriptions.

Akkadian language --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Akkadien (Langue) --- Littérature assyro-babylonienne --- Texts --- History and criticism --- Textes --- Histoire et critique --- Schyen Collection --- History and criticism. --- Schøyen Collection. --- Littérature assyro-babylonienne --- Schøyen Collection --- Schøyen Collection of Western Manuscripts --- Akkadian language - Texts --- Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism --- Akkadien (langue)