The meaning of sacred names and Babylonian scholarship: the Gula Hymn and other works
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Names -- 1.2 Babylonian speculative scholarship -- 1.3 The Gula hymn -- 1.4 Implications and conclusions -- 2. Babylonian speculative scholarship -- 2.1 Intellectual background -- 2.1.1 Lexical tradition -- 2.1.2 Bi...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Münster
Zaphon
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Bennett, Elizabeth Anne, 19XX-, The meaning of sacred names and Babylonian scholarship : the Gula Hymn and other works] (2023) (Renzi-Sepe, Maria Teresa)
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| Series/Journal: | dubsar
Band 25 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Gula
/ Akkadian language
/ Hymn
/ Name of God
/ Sanctuary
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| Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
B Thesis |
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| Summary: | Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Names -- 1.2 Babylonian speculative scholarship -- 1.3 The Gula hymn -- 1.4 Implications and conclusions -- 2. Babylonian speculative scholarship -- 2.1 Intellectual background -- 2.1.1 Lexical tradition -- 2.1.2 Bilingual translations -- 2.1.3 Omen tradition -- 2.2 Commentary texts -- 2.3 Sacred names and speculative scholarship -- 2.4 Ancient evidence -- 2.4.1 Expository texts -- 2.4.2 Explanatory works -- 2.4.3 Commentary texts -- 2.4.4 Akkadian expressions -- 2.4.5 Speculative interpretation in the Old Babylonian period -- 2.5 Modern scholarship -- 2.6 Text corpus -- 3. Speculative scholarship in the text corpus -- 3.1 The speculative techniques -- 3.1.1 Translation -- 3.1.2 Free rendering -- 3.1.3 Speculative interpretation -- 3.2 The speculative methods -- 3.2.1 Translation of individual elements -- 3.2.2 Speculative translation -- 3.2.3 Free rendering and free association -- 3.2.4 Free handling of order -- 3.2.5 Not all elements used -- 3.2.6 Determinative given equivalence -- 3.2.7 Element interpreted as determinative -- 3.2.8 Form freedom -- 3.2.9 Plural freely inferred -- 3.2.10 Emesal -- 3.2.11 Homophony -- 3.2.12 Polyvalence -- 3.2.13 Homophony and polyvalence together -- 3.2.14 Akkadian homophony -- 3.2.15 Near-homophony -- 3.2.16 Vowels -- 3.2.17 Consonantal groups -- 3.2.18 Part only of element used -- 3.2.19 Contrived orthography -- 3.2.20 Different elements, single equivalence -- 3.2.21 Repeated use of elements -- 3.2.22 Reduplicated elements -- 3.2.23 Abbreviation -- 3.2.24 Phonological reversal -- 3.2.25 Graphic interpretation -- 3.2.26 Older forms -- 3.2.27 Multiple possibilities -- 4. The Gula hymn -- 4.1 The texts -- 4.2 The overlap -- 4.3 Overview of the Gula hymn -- 4.3.1 Synopsis of the Gula hymn. |
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| ISBN: | 396327171X |