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ISBN: 9782753536944 Year: 2015 Publisher: Rennes Presses universitaires de Rennes
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Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Supplications. --- Littérature. --- Supplications --- Littérature.
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ISBN: 9783447122702 Year: 2024 Publisher: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag,
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The Performance of Balag and Ersema Prayers in the Late First Millennium BC investigates the corpus of seventy-one tablets of such prayers which include performative annotations (designated here as "performative indications"). Balag and Ersema are two genres of prayers which were written in the Emesal register of Sumerian. Both genres are attested for about two millennia, from the beginning of the second millennium BC onwards. But the performative indications appear only in selected manuscripts in the last few centuries of their textual transmission, namely the late first millennium BC. The performative indications consist primarily of vocalic annotations, which seem to have functioned as indicators of melismatic song, as markers of prosodic units, and for rhetorical emphasis. In addition, directive indications concerning percussion instruments and other performative aspects seem to have functioned, at least partly, as a means of marking emphasis and dramatic effect. The book examines the scribal contexts of the corpus, with particular emphasis on the available colophons. The study also focuses on the geographical and/or diachronic variations within the corpus, distinguishing between a "northern" style of performative indications known from Babylon and Borsippa, versus a more elaborate "southern" style known from Uruk, Der and Ur.
Pleading --- Intercessory prayer --- Inscriptions, Ancient. --- Supplications --- Prière d'intercession --- Inscriptions antiques.
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ISBN: 9783447122719 Year: 2024 Publisher: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag,
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Uri Gabbay presents a critical edition of the ancient Mesopotamian prayer of lamentation Oh, My Abzu! (a abzu-gu10) which belongs to the group of Balag prayers and is written in the Emesal register of the Sumerian language. This prayer has only been partially identified and addressed in previous research. The edition of the prayer is based on several cuneiform tablets and fragments from the first millennium BC, mainly from the cities of Nineveh, Babylon, and Uruk, as well as on a cuneiform tablet from Babylon dating back to the second millennium BC. Some of these tablets and fragments are published for the first time. The prayer includes laments about the destruction of the temples of the god Enki in the city of Eridu and of the god Asalluni in the city of Kuara. Gabbay offers a general discussion on the prayers and laments related to the god Enki, as well as on the image of this god in comparison to the god Enlil. In addition, the image of the lamenting goddess and other literary and theological themes that can be found in the prayers and laments of the god Enki are explored.
Intercessory prayer --- Pleading --- Inscriptions, Ancient. --- Prière d'intercession --- Supplications --- Antiquité. --- Enki --- Enki,
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