Book Description
In Babylonian studies 'Wisdom' is used to cover a group of texts similar in scope to the Biblical Wisdom books: discussions on the problem of suffering, teaching on the good life, fables or contest literature, and proverbs.
Author : Wilfred G. Lambert
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,18 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780931464942
In Babylonian studies 'Wisdom' is used to cover a group of texts similar in scope to the Biblical Wisdom books: discussions on the problem of suffering, teaching on the good life, fables or contest literature, and proverbs.
Author : W. G. Lambert
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Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,12 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Stephen Herbert Langdon
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Page : 103 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 1923
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Author : Richard J. Clifford
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1589832191
The last fifty years have seen a dramatic increase of interest in the wisdom literature of the Bible, as scholars have come to appreciate the subtlety and originality of Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes as well as of Sirach and Wisdom of Solomon. Interest has likewise grown in the wisdom literatures of the neighboring cultures of Canaan, Egypt, and especially Mesopotamia. To help readers understand the place of biblical wisdom within this broader context, including its originality and distinctiveness, this volume offers a collection of essays by Assyriologists and biblicists on the social, intellectual, and literary setting of Mesopotamian wisdom; on specific wisdom texts; and on key themes common to both Mesopotamian and biblical culture. --From publisher's description.
Author : Stephen Herbert Langdon
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Page : pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 1980
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Author : Wilfred G. Lambert
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1575068613
For much of the last half of the twentieth century, W. G. Lambert devoted much of his research energy and effort to the study of Babylonian texts dealing with Mesopotamian ideas regarding creation, including especially Enuma Elish. This volume, which appears almost exactly 2 years after Lambert’s death, distills a lifetime of learning by the world’s foremost expert on these texts. Lambert provides a full transliteration and translation of the 7 tablets of Enuma Elish, based on the known exemplars, as well as coverage of a number of other texts that bear on, or are thought to bear on, Mesopotamian notions of the origin of the world, mankind, and the gods. New editions of seventeen additional “creation tales” are provided, including “Enmesharra’s Defeat,” “Enki and Ninmah,” “The Slaying of Labbu,” and “The Theogony of Dunnu.” Lambert pays special attention, of course, to the connection of the main epic, Enuma Elish, with the rise and place of Marduk in the Babylonian pantheon. He traces the development of this deity’s origin and rise to prominence and elaborates the relationship of this text, and the others discussed, to the religious and political climate Babylonia. The volume includes 70 plates (primarily hand-copies of the various exemplars of Enuma Elish) and extensive indexes.
Author : Stephen Langdon
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Page : 122 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Akkadian language
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Author : Wilfred G. Lambert
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 37,21 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781575060040
This collection of essays composed by an international array of friends and colleagues typifies the career accomplishments and scholarly endeavors of W. G. Lambert.
Author : S. Langdon
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Page : 103 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Akkadian language
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Author : Stephen Herbert Langdo
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Assyro-Babylonian literature
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