Fictional Akkadian Autobiography: A Generic and Comparative Study

الغلاف الأمامي
Eisenbrauns, 1991 - 274 من الصفحات

That autobiography in ancient literature is fictional has long been recognized. The purpose of Longman's study is to delineate the genre of fictional autobiography in Akkadian texts with similar texts from other ancient Near Eastern cultures.

Included are the texts of all relevant fictional Akkadian autobiographies, as well as an appendix containing English translations of them. The results of the study are of interest to Assyriologists, but also have implications for students of comparative literature and the Bible.

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الصفحات المحددة

المحتوى

A Generic Approach to Akkadian Literature
3
A Comparative Approach to Akkadian Literature
23
Autobiography as a Genre
39
Conclusion to Part 1
49
Part 2
51
Fictional Akkadian Autobiography with a Blessing andor a Curse Ending
53
Fictional Akkadian Autobiography with a Donation Ending
79
Fictional Akkadian Autobiography with a Didactic Ending
97
Part 3
197
Conclusion
199
English Translations of the Fictional Akkadian Autobiographies
215
Bibliography
245
Index of Ancient Personal Names
267
Index of Ancient Near Eastern Writings
269
Index of Scripture
270
Index of Subjects
271

Fictional Akkadian Autobiography with a Prophetic Ending
131
Fragmentary Autobiographies
193

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الصفحة 125 - Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
الصفحة 124 - Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart, - . Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.
الصفحة 120 - When the gods created mankind, Death for mankind they set aside, Life in their own hands retaining. Thou, Gilgamesh, let full be thy belly, Make thou merry by day and by night.
الصفحة 76 - There must exist an accepted conventional procedure having a certain conventional effect, that procedure to include the uttering of certain words by certain persons in certain circumstances, and further, (A.
الصفحة 77 - Come." And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price. 18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book...
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الصفحة 245 - Some Important Recent Discoveries: Alphabetic Origins and the Idrimi Statue.
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الصفحة x - HTR Harvard Theological Review HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual...

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