World's Oldest Literature

Studies in Sumerian Belles-Lettres

AvWilliam W. Hallo

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

Del 35 i serien Culture and History of the Ancient Near East

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Beskrivning

Literature begins at Sumer, we may say. Given that this ancient crossroads of tin and copper produced not only bronze and the entire Bronze Age, but also by neccesity, the first system of record-keeping and the technique of writing. Scribal schools served to propogate the new technique and their curriculum grew to create, preserve and transmit all manner of creative poetry. In a lifetime of research, the author has studied multiple aspects of this most ancient literary oeuvre, including such questions as chronology and bilingualism, as well as contributing fundamental insights into specific genres such as proverbs, letter-prayers and lamentations. In addition, he has drawn conclusions for the comparative or contextual approach to biblical literature. His studies, widely scattered in diverse publications for nearly fifty years, are here assembled in convenient one-volume format, made more user-friendly by extensive cross-references and indices."Well-informed and sober, these essays offer rewarding reading for every area of biblical scholarship."A.R. Millard

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-11-27
Mått:160 x 240 x 51 mm
Vikt:1 529 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Culture and History of the Ancient Near East
Antal sidor:768
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004173811

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William W. Hallo is the William M. Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature Emeritus and former Curator of the Babylonian collection at Yale University. He holds degrees from Harvard (BA, 1950), Leiden (Candidatus Litterarum Semiticarum 1951) and Chicago (MA 1953 and Ph.D. 1955 in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures). He is author or co-author of The Book of the People (1991), Scripture in Context (4 vols. 1980-1991), Heritage: Civilization and the Jews (2 vols. 1984), Sumerian Archival Texts (1973), The Ancient Near East: A History (1971), The Exaltation of Inanna (1968), and Early Mesopotamian Royal titles (1957). He previously taught at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, and has been Visiting Professor at Kassel (Germany), Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

Innehållsförteckning

Part I: ProgrammaticsPart II: Catalogues and Other ScholiaPart III: Royal and Divine HymnsPart IV: Letter-PrayersPart V: Royal CorrespondencePart VI: HistoriographyPart VII: Myths and EpicsPart VIII: ProverbsPart IX: IncantationsPart X: Sumerian Literature and the Bible