Research Catalog

Title

Babylonian and Assyrian text commentaries : origins of interpretation / Eckart Frahm.

Author

Frahm, Eckart

Publication

Münster : Ugarit-Verlag, 2011.

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Details

Series Statement

Guides to the Mesopotamian textual record ; volume 5

Uniform Title

Guides to the Mesopotamian textual record v. 5.

Alternative Title

Origins of interpretation

Subject

• Akkadian language > Texts
• Akkadian language
• Akkadian philology
• Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian
• Cuneiform tablets
• Akkadian language > Texts > Commentaries
• Assyro-Babylonian literature > Commentaries
• Hermeneutics

Genre/Form

Commentaries

Note

• Habilitation.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Philology and divination : ancestors and correlates of the commentary tradition -- Temporal and geographical distribution of the commentaries -- Typology of the commentaries -- Hermeneutic techniques used in Babylonian and Assyrian commentaries -- Sources of the explanations -- Texts commented on and their commentaries : an overview -- The socio-cultural milieu of Mesopotamian commentary studies -- Canonization and the formation of the commentary tradition -- Cultic commentaries and other "explanatory" texts -- A case study of Mesopotamian hermeneutics : the reception history of Enūma eliš -- The legacy of Babylonian and Assyrian hermeneutics.

ISBN

9783868350562 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 741624931
• SCSB-11299961

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library