One of the enduring problems in biblical studies is how the Bible came to be written. Clearly,
scribes were involved. But our knowledge of scribal training in ancient Israel is limited …

Les rabats de jaquette indiquent:" When we encounter a text, whether ancient or modern, we
typically start at the beginning and work our way toward the end. In Tracking the Master …

This volume presents the original texts and annotated translations of a collection of
Mesopotamian wisdom compositions and related texts of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500 …

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 …

The fifth tablet of ša naqba īmuru, the Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgameš, tells the story
of Gilgameš and Enkidu's encounter with Ḫ umbaba, the guardian of the Cedar Forest …

From the late third millennium BCE on, the adventures of Gilgamesh were well known
throughout Babylonia and Assyria, and the discovery of fragmentary Akkadian-language …

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 …

By the 13th century BC, the Syrian city of Ugarit hosted an extremely diverse range of writing
practices. As well as two main scripts–alphabetic and logographic cuneiform-the site has …

A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star,
bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace" Sophus Helle's new translation...[is] …

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 …