In THE ARK BEFORE NOAH, British Museum expert Dr Irving Finkel reveals how decoding
the symbols on a 4,000 year old piece of clay enable a radical new interpretation of the …

Den immerwährenden Traum der Menschheit, Einblick in die Zukunft nehmen und so den
Erfolg wichtiger Unternehmungen schon im voraus überschauen zu können, schienen …

Most cultures have myths of origin. The Babylonians were the first to combine blocks of
traditions about primeval time into primeval histories where humans had a central role. In the …

Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies
as well as in writings. It explores the forms knowledge takes and the meanings it accrues …

In Weapons of Words: Intertextual Competition in Babylonian Poetry Selena Wisnom offers
an in-depth literary study of three poems central to Babylonian culture: Anzû, Enūma eliš …

This article addresses a problem that is rapidly advancing to the status of a new Homeric
question: the relationship between Greek epic and the narrative traditions of neighbouring …

According to the ancient commentaries, Iliad 21.195 was omitted by some sources, thereby
making Acheloios, instead of Ocean, the origin of all waters, including the sea: the reasons …

Abstract Die Untersuchung von Gen 1-11 nimmt mit Blick auf die Literaturgeschichte des
Pentateuch seit dem Aufkommen der Urkundenhypothese eine Schlüsselstellung ein, die im …

This book initiates the reader into the study of Akkadian literature from ancient Babylonia
and Assyria. With this one relatively short volume, the novice reader will develop the literary …

This chapter investigates metaphors and concepts associated with the female reproductive
body in gynecological texts from 2nd and 1st millennium BCE Mesopotamia, focusing on …