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Providing a scholar's salute to a teacher, colleague, and friend, the contributors of this new volume honor the memory of Thorkild Jacobsen with essays on Mesopotamian history, culture, literature, and religion. Contributors include: Tzvi Abusch, John Huehnergard, Bendt Alster, Jeremy Black, Miguel Civil, Jerrold S. Cooper, M. J. Geller, Stephen A. Geller, Samuel Greengus, William W. Hallo, Wolfgang Heimpel, Jacob Klein, W. G. Lambert, Jack M. Sasson, Ake W. Sjoberg, Piotr Steinkeller, H. L. J. Vanstiphout, and Claus Wilcke.

Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Littérature assyro-babylonienne --- Sumerian literature --- Littérature sumérienne --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Iraq --- Irak --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Littérature assyro-babylonienne --- Littérature sumérienne --- Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism. --- Sumerian literature - History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique.

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This volume is a scholarly tribute to Benjamin R. Foster, Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature and Curator of the Babylonian Collection at Yale University, from some of his students, colleagues, and companions, in appreciation of his outstanding achievements and in thanks for his friendship. Reflecting on the remarkable breadth of the honoree’s research interests, the twenty-six original papers in this Festschrift cover a wide range of topics in ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian literature, economic and social history, as well as art and archaeology.

Inscriptions cunéiformes $2 ram --- Tablettes cunéiformes --- Civilisation assyro-babylonienne --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Akkadian language --- Egyptian language --- History and criticism --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Akkadian language. --- Egyptian language. --- Sumerian literature --- History and criticism. --- Iraq --- Religion. --- Assyro-Babylonian literature -- History and criticism. --- Iraq -- Literatures. --- Iraq -- Religion. --- Sumerian literature -- History and criticism. --- Languages & Literatures --- Middle Eastern Languages & Literatures --- Afroasiatic languages --- Accadian language --- Assyrian language --- Assyro-Babylonian language --- Babylonian language --- Semitic languages --- Irak --- Rāfidayn, Bilād --- Bilād al-Rāfidayn --- Republic of Iraq --- Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah --- Tablettes cunéiformes. --- Civilisation assyro-babylonienne. --- Inscriptions cunéiformes $2 ram --- Inscriptions cunéiformes --- Tablettes cunéiformes.

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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.