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Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld and the Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle / Alhena Gadotti.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie : Ergänzungsbände zur Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie ; 10Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (430 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781614517085
  • 9781614518549
  • 9781614515456
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 492.17 22
LOC classification:
  • PJ3771.G6
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations -- On transliteration and conventions -- Chapter I. “Gilgameš enkidu and the netherworld”: An overview -- Chapter II. The prologue of “gilgameš, enkidu and the netherworld” -- Chapter III. The ḫalub-tree -- Chapter IV. Narrative and poetic structure -- Chapter V. Enkidu redivivus -- Chapter VI. The sumerian gilgameš cycle -- Chapter VII. Enkidu’s return and the catalogue of ghosts: Gen ll. 255–end -- Chapter VIII. The manuscripts -- The edition -- Translation -- Eclectic text -- Textual matrix -- Commentary -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Indexes -- Plates
Summary: Alhena Gadotti offers a much needed new edition of the Sumerian composition Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld, last published by Aaron Shaffer in his 1963 doctoral dissertation. Since then, several new manuscripts have come to light, prompting not only a new edition of the text, but also a re-examination of the composition. In this book, Gadotti argues that Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld was the first, not the last of the Sumerian stories about Gilgamesh. She also suggests that a Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle, currently only attested in old Babylonian manuscripts (ca. 18th century BCE), was in fact developed during the Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BCE). Providing a new way to look at the Sumerian Gilgamesh stories, this book is relevant not only to scholars of the ancient Near East, but also to anyone interested in epic and epic cycle.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations -- On transliteration and conventions -- Chapter I. “Gilgameš enkidu and the netherworld”: An overview -- Chapter II. The prologue of “gilgameš, enkidu and the netherworld” -- Chapter III. The ḫalub-tree -- Chapter IV. Narrative and poetic structure -- Chapter V. Enkidu redivivus -- Chapter VI. The sumerian gilgameš cycle -- Chapter VII. Enkidu’s return and the catalogue of ghosts: Gen ll. 255–end -- Chapter VIII. The manuscripts -- The edition -- Translation -- Eclectic text -- Textual matrix -- Commentary -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Indexes -- Plates

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Alhena Gadotti offers a much needed new edition of the Sumerian composition Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld, last published by Aaron Shaffer in his 1963 doctoral dissertation. Since then, several new manuscripts have come to light, prompting not only a new edition of the text, but also a re-examination of the composition. In this book, Gadotti argues that Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld was the first, not the last of the Sumerian stories about Gilgamesh. She also suggests that a Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle, currently only attested in old Babylonian manuscripts (ca. 18th century BCE), was in fact developed during the Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BCE). Providing a new way to look at the Sumerian Gilgamesh stories, this book is relevant not only to scholars of the ancient Near East, but also to anyone interested in epic and epic cycle.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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