Babylonian and Assyrian text commentaries: origins of interpretation

The systematic study of written texts began, not in Biblical Israel or the classical world, but in ancient Mesopotamia. Nearly one thousand clay tablets from Babylonia and Assyria, dating from the eighth to the second century BCE, comprise the earliest substantial corpus of text commentaries known f...

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Published in:Guides to the Mesopotamian textual record
Main Author: Frahm, Eckart 1967- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Münster Ugarit-Verlag 2011
In: Guides to the Mesopotamian textual record (5)
Year: 2011
Reviews:Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries. Origins of Interpretation (2012) (Livingstone, Alasdair)
Series/Journal:Guides to the Mesopotamian textual record 5
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Babylonian language / Assyrian language / Cuneiform text / Commentary
Further subjects:B Akkadian philology
B Akkadian language Texts Commentaries
B Cuneiform tablets
B Hermeneutics
B Assyro-Babylonian literature Commentaries
B Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian
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