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oapen-20.500.12657-429962020-12-21T13:31:06Z The Flood: The Akkadian Sources Wasserman, Nathan Mesopotamian mythology flood cuneiform texts bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLA Ancient history: to c 500 CE The story of the primeval cataclysmic flood which wiped out all life on earth, save for one family, is found in different ancient Mesopotamian texts whence it reached the Biblical and Classical literary traditions. The present book systematically collects the earliest attestations of the myth of the Flood, namely all the cuneiform-written Akkadian sources – from the Old Babylonian to the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods, including Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh –, presenting them in a new synoptic edition and English translation which are accompanied by a detailed philological commentary and an extensive literary discussion. The book also includes a complete glossary of the Akkadian sources. 2020-11-16T13:39:45Z 2020-11-16T13:39:45Z 2020 book ONIX_20201116_9789042941731_7 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42996 eng Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789042941748.pdf https://www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?search_key=9789042941731&series_number_str=290&lang=en Peeters 79d3d252-599a-4863-a7d0-d8ca74a9c390 48ddebd2-a93d-4c0a-b460-ef3cc94c9576 290 187 Leuven; Paris, Bristol, CT [grantnumber unknown] open access
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The story of the primeval cataclysmic flood which wiped out all life on earth, save for one family, is found in different ancient Mesopotamian texts whence it reached the Biblical and Classical literary traditions. The present book systematically collects the earliest attestations of the myth of the Flood, namely all the cuneiform-written Akkadian sources – from the Old Babylonian to the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods, including Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh –, presenting them in a new synoptic edition and English translation which are accompanied by a detailed philological commentary and an extensive literary discussion. The book also includes a complete glossary of the Akkadian sources.
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