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Based on a newly published cuneiform letter from 171 BCE, this article discusses how the art of l... more Based on a newly published cuneiform letter from 171 BCE, this article discusses how the art of liturgical lamentation was taught to novices in Late Babylonian Uruk. It also provides new evidence for the cultural exchange that went on between different Late Babylonian cities.
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The Yale Babylonian Collection houses virtually every genre, type, and period of ancient Mesopotamian writing, ranging from about 3000 B.C.E. to the early Christian Era. Among its treasures are tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh and other narratives, the world’s oldest recipes, a large corpus of magic spells and mathematical texts, stunning miniature art carved on seals, and poetry by the first named author in world history, the princess Enheduanna.
This unique volume, the companion book to an exhibition at Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, celebrates the Yale Babylonian Collection and its formal affiliation with the museum. Included are essays by world-renowned experts on the exhibition themes, photographs and illustrations, and a catalog of artifacts in the collection that present the ancient Near East in the light of present-day discussion of lived experiences, focusing on family life and love, education and scholarship, identity, crime and transgression, demons, and sickness.
Agnete W. Lassen is associate curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Eckart Frahm is professor of Assyriology at Yale University. Klaus Wagensonner is a post-doctoral researcher at Yale University.
1. Introduction
2. Philology and divination: ancestors and correlates of the commentary tradition
3. Temporal and geographical distribution of the commentaries 4. Typology of the commentaries
5. Hermeneutic techniques used in Babylonian and Assyrian commentaries
6. Sources of the explanations
7. Texts commented on and their commentaries: an overview
8. The socio-cultural milieu of Mesopotamian commentary studies
9. Canonization and the formation of the commentary tradition
10. Cultic commentaries and other “explanatory” texts
11. A case study of Mesopotamian hermeneutics: The reception history of Enūma eliš
12. The legacy of Babylonian and Assyrian hermeneutics
Appendix (I. Selected text editions ; II. Some statistics)
Abbreviations; Bibliography; Indices
Papers by Eckart Frahm
The Yale Babylonian Collection houses virtually every genre, type, and period of ancient Mesopotamian writing, ranging from about 3000 B.C.E. to the early Christian Era. Among its treasures are tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh and other narratives, the world’s oldest recipes, a large corpus of magic spells and mathematical texts, stunning miniature art carved on seals, and poetry by the first named author in world history, the princess Enheduanna.
This unique volume, the companion book to an exhibition at Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, celebrates the Yale Babylonian Collection and its formal affiliation with the museum. Included are essays by world-renowned experts on the exhibition themes, photographs and illustrations, and a catalog of artifacts in the collection that present the ancient Near East in the light of present-day discussion of lived experiences, focusing on family life and love, education and scholarship, identity, crime and transgression, demons, and sickness.
Agnete W. Lassen is associate curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Eckart Frahm is professor of Assyriology at Yale University. Klaus Wagensonner is a post-doctoral researcher at Yale University.
1. Introduction
2. Philology and divination: ancestors and correlates of the commentary tradition
3. Temporal and geographical distribution of the commentaries 4. Typology of the commentaries
5. Hermeneutic techniques used in Babylonian and Assyrian commentaries
6. Sources of the explanations
7. Texts commented on and their commentaries: an overview
8. The socio-cultural milieu of Mesopotamian commentary studies
9. Canonization and the formation of the commentary tradition
10. Cultic commentaries and other “explanatory” texts
11. A case study of Mesopotamian hermeneutics: The reception history of Enūma eliš
12. The legacy of Babylonian and Assyrian hermeneutics
Appendix (I. Selected text editions ; II. Some statistics)
Abbreviations; Bibliography; Indices
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