Weapons of words: intertextual competition in Babylonian poetry : a study of Anzū, Enūma eliš, and Erra and Išum /
In Weapons of Words: Intertextual Competition in Babylonian Poetry Selena Wisnom offers an in-depth literary study of three poems central to Babylonian culture: Anzû, Enūma eliš, and Erra and Išum . Fundamentally interconnected, each poem strives to out-do its predecessors and competes to establish...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
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Leiden Boston :
BRILL,
2020.
Series:
Culture and History of the Ancient Near East;
volume106.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390805.
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Call Number: PJ3761 .W57 2019
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Allusions in Anzû
- Enūma eliš and Anzû
- Enūma eliš and Atraḫasīs
- Enūma eliš and Lugal-e
- Erra and Išum: Allusions to Anzû and Lugal-e
- Overturning the Old Order: Erra and Išum and Enūma eliš, Atraḫasīs, and Gilgameš
- Erra and Išum and Lamentations
- Conclusion-a Self-Conscious Tradition
- Back Matter
- References
- Indexes.