Read the review of "A palimpsest: rhetoric. ideology, stylistics and language relating to Persian Israel" (edited by Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana Edelman and Franck Polak) in Review of Biblical Literature
The reviewer is Bob Becking, Faculty Professor for Bible, Religion and Identity at Utrecht University.
Find the book in SOAS Library at QN418 / 732170
Information about and resources for the Ancient Near East collection at the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Friday 25 March 2011
Monday 21 March 2011
Gilgamesh: book review
Scott Jones (Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Covenant College) reviews Daniel Fleming and Sara Milstein's "The buried foundation of the Gilgamesh epic: the Akkadian Huwawa narrative" in the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures (Vol.11, 2011)
The book follows the tradition history of the Gilgamesh epic from the Sumerian Huwawa tales to the Old Babylonian version
Read the book in SOAS Library at QED892.1 / 739772
The book follows the tradition history of the Gilgamesh epic from the Sumerian Huwawa tales to the Old Babylonian version
Read the book in SOAS Library at QED892.1 / 739772
Wednesday 9 March 2011
Mesopotamian story-telling: ZIPANG Day Out at British Museum and the Poetry Café
DISCOVER MESOPOTAMIA THROUGH STORYTELLING
ZIPANG Day Out — Etana, the king who flew on the back of an eagle
Saturday, 12th March 2011
Morning in the British Museum, afternoon at the Poetry Café, Covent Garden
For details of when and where to meet, click here:
http://www.zipang.org.uk/pdfs/
For a typical ZIPANG Day Out, click here:
http://www.zipang.org.uk/pdfs/
Wednesday 2 March 2011
Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals
Online article from Unreported Heritage News about anti-witchcraft rituals in ancient Mesopotamia, with translations from the original cuneiform texts by Professor Tzvi Abusch (Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.)
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