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Adapa and the south wind : language has the power of life and death / Shlomo Izre'el.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Mesopotamian civilizations ; 10.Publication details: Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 182 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781575065243
  • 157506524X
  • 1575060485
  • 9781575060484
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Adapa and the south wind.DDC classification:
  • 299/.21 21
LOC classification:
  • BL1625.A35 I97 2001eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Ch. 1. Texts and Fragments -- Ch. 2. Dating and Compositional Factors -- The Amarna Fragment -- The Nineveh Fragments and Their Relationship to the Amarna Fragment -- Excursus: The TMA System and the Narrative Sequence -- The Origins of the Myth -- Ch. 3. The Myth as Poetry -- Poetic Devices -- Red Points and Meter -- Ch. 4. Language Has the Power of Life and Death: Structure and Meaning -- Unfolding the Narrative: The Linguistic Component and Meaningful Structural Ties.
Summary: The scholarly world first became aware of the myth of Adapa and the South Wind when it was discovered on a tablet from the El-Amarna archive in 1887. We now have at our disposal six fragments of the myth. The largest and most important fragment, from Amarna, is dated to the 14th century B.C.E. This fragment of the Adapa myth has red-tinted points applied on the tablet at specific intervals. Izre'el draws attention to a few of these points that were missed in previous publications by Knudtzon and Schroeder. Five other fragments were part of the Assurbanipal library and are representative of this myth as it was known in Assyria about seven centuries later.The discovery of the myth of Adapa and the South Wind immediately attracted wide attention. Its ideology and its correspondence to the intellectual heritage of Western religions precipitated flourishing studies of this myth, both philological and substantive. Many translations have appeared during the past century, shedding light on various aspects of the myth and its characters. Izre'el unveils the myth of Adapa and the South Wind as mythos, as story. To do this, he analyzes the underlying concepts through extensive treatment of form. He offers an edition of the extant fragments of the myth, including the transliterated Akkadian text, a translation, and a philological commentary. The analysis of poetic form that follows leads to understanding the myth as a piece of literature and to uncovering its meanings. This study therefore marks a new phase in the long, extensive research into this Mesopotamian myth.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-172).

Print version record.

Ch. 1. Texts and Fragments -- Ch. 2. Dating and Compositional Factors -- The Amarna Fragment -- The Nineveh Fragments and Their Relationship to the Amarna Fragment -- Excursus: The TMA System and the Narrative Sequence -- The Origins of the Myth -- Ch. 3. The Myth as Poetry -- Poetic Devices -- Red Points and Meter -- Ch. 4. Language Has the Power of Life and Death: Structure and Meaning -- Unfolding the Narrative: The Linguistic Component and Meaningful Structural Ties.

English.

The scholarly world first became aware of the myth of Adapa and the South Wind when it was discovered on a tablet from the El-Amarna archive in 1887. We now have at our disposal six fragments of the myth. The largest and most important fragment, from Amarna, is dated to the 14th century B.C.E. This fragment of the Adapa myth has red-tinted points applied on the tablet at specific intervals. Izre'el draws attention to a few of these points that were missed in previous publications by Knudtzon and Schroeder. Five other fragments were part of the Assurbanipal library and are representative of this myth as it was known in Assyria about seven centuries later.The discovery of the myth of Adapa and the South Wind immediately attracted wide attention. Its ideology and its correspondence to the intellectual heritage of Western religions precipitated flourishing studies of this myth, both philological and substantive. Many translations have appeared during the past century, shedding light on various aspects of the myth and its characters. Izre'el unveils the myth of Adapa and the South Wind as mythos, as story. To do this, he analyzes the underlying concepts through extensive treatment of form. He offers an edition of the extant fragments of the myth, including the transliterated Akkadian text, a translation, and a philological commentary. The analysis of poetic form that follows leads to understanding the myth as a piece of literature and to uncovering its meanings. This study therefore marks a new phase in the long, extensive research into this Mesopotamian myth.