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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 31 October 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350297197
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 232x156x20 mm
- Weight 520 g
- Language English 708
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Long description:
This open access book is the first in a groundbreaking series making Babylonian literature accessible. It presents Enuma Elish in transcription and translation, with an introduction for non-specialist readers and essays from leading scholars in the field.
Acting as a companion to the poem, the book provides readers with the tools they need to explore Enuma Elish in greater depth. Essays cover important historical and contextual information, offer discussions of key topics and explanations of technical terms, as well as suggestions of relevant further reading. The book's interpretive and reflective approach, which pays special attention to questions of poetic style, intertextual resonance, and literary and cultural significance, encourages a greater understanding of the poem as a work of literature while remaining grounded in philology.
The critical essays examine Enuma Elish and the following themes: the poem's rhythm and style; its modern receptions, issues of gender, motherhood and masculinity; Marduk's rise to power; Babylonian astronomy; intertextuality and the poem as counter myth.
Enuma Elish and the Library of Babylonian Literature series will be an indispensable companion for anyone interested in the literature, culture and religion of ancient Assyria.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by LMU Munich and Princeton University.
Table of Contents:
Preface: Introducing the Library of Babylonian Literature, Johannes Haubold (Princeton University, USA), Sophus Helle (The Free University of Berlin, Germany), Enrique Jimï¿1⁄2nez (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany), Selena Wisnom (University of Leicester, UK)
Part I: Enuma Elish
Introduction, Sophus Helle (The Free University of Berlin, Germany)
Text and Translation, Adrian C. Heinrich and Sophus Helle (The Free University of Berlin, Germany)
Part II: The History of the Epic
1. Marduk and the Battle with the Sea: On the Dating of Enuma Elish, Enrique Jimï¿1⁄2nez (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)
2. Enuma Elish in Cult and Ritual Performance,, Cï¿1⁄2line Debourse (University of Helsinki, Finland)
3. The Cuneiform Reception, Frances Reynolds (University of Oxford, UK)
4. Enuma Elish Outside the Cuneiform Tradition, Eckart Frahm (Yale University, USA)
5. Monstrous Mothers and Metal Bands: Enuma Elish Today, Gina Konstantopolous (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
Part III: Major Themes
6. Marduk's Elevation: A Masterpiece of Political Thought, Gï¿1⁄2sta Gabriel (The Free University of Berlin, Germany)
7. Divine Rhetoric: Enuma Elish on Communication and Emotion, Johannes Haubold (Princeton University, USA)
8. A Mirror for Queens: Gender, Motherhood, and Power in Enuma Elish, Karen Sonik (Auburn University, USA)
9. Enuma Elish, Knowledge of the Heaves, and World Order, Francesca Rochberg (University of California Berkeley, USA)
Part IV: Poetics and Hermeneutics
10. Soothing the Sea: Intertextuality and Lament in Enuma Elish, Selena Wisnom (University of Leicester, UK)
11. The Shape of Water: Content and Form in Enuma Elish, Sophus Helle (The Free University of Berlin, Germany)
12. The Sound of Creation: The Revolutionary Poetics of Enuma Elish, Piotr Michalowski (University of Michigan, USA)
13. Marduk's Names and Cuneiform Hermeneutics, Marc Van De Mieroop (Columbia University, USA)
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