Religion, Literature, and Scholarship: The Sumerian Composition Nanse and the Birds

With a Catalogue of Sumerian Bird Names
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13950-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1089 g

Reihe: Cuneiform Monographs

This book uses insights from religious studies, literary theory, and the history of science for understanding the Sumerian composition Nanše and the Birds in the context of the Old Babylonian scribal school. The discussions of Babylonian religion, literature, and scholarship focus on the usefulness and relevance of these modern concepts for categorizing the ancient text.
The volume presents the first critical edition of Nanše and the Birds, as well as editions of the hymn Nanše B and all third millennium and Old Babylonian lexical lists of birds. It includes 37 plates with photographs and line drawings, including many previously unpublished tablets. The final chapter discusses the identity and orthography of all Sumerian bird names in literary, administrative and lexical texts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Veldhuis, Niek

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literaturen des Alten Orients
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Niek Veldhuis, Ph.D. (1997) in Assyriology, University of Groningen, is Assistant Professor of Assyriology at UC Berkeley. He has published extensively on Babylonian scholarship, religion, and literature, and is director of the Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts (http://cdli.ucla.edu/dcclt/dcclt.html).