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245 10 a| Ea's duplicity in the Gilgamesh flood storyh| [electronic resource] /c| Martin Worthington.;

260 a| London ;a| New York :b| Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,c| 2020.;

300 a| xxxii, 489 pages ;c| 25 cm.;

490 0 a| The ancient word;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages [421]-460) and indexes.;

505 0 a| "Interrogating" Babylonian narrative poetry -- "Identifying" puns -- The high concentration of puns in the Gilgame¿Ł: flood story -- The lines about the flood hero -- Raining "plenty": u¿Łaznanakkunu¿Łi nuh'¿Łam-ma -- The birds: [hi'ib] ishurati -- The fish: puzur nuni -- The harvest: [...] me¿Łr©Ø eburam-ma -- "Cakes at dawn": ina ser(-)kukki -- "In the evening": ina lil©Øti -- The "rain of wheat": sam©¿t kibati -- Recapitulation -- Issues of textual history -- Meaning and performance -- Outlining the problems -- Does Atra-has♯±s "fill in the gaps"? -- Communications between Ea and the flood hero -- Communication between the flood hero and the people of Shuruppak -- Ea's elusiveness -- The enigma of uta-napisti -- Why the "gaps"? -- Ea's duplicity and Babylonian/Assyrian divination -- Beyond cuneiform.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "This volume opens up new perspectives on Babylonian and Assyrian literature, through the lens of a pivotal passage in the Gilgamesh Flood story. It shows how, using a nine-line message where not all was as it seemed, the god Ea inveigled humans into building the Ark. The volume argues that Ea used a 'bitextual' message: one which can be understood in different ways that sound the same. His message thus emerges as an ambivalent oracle in the tradition of 'folktale prophecy'. The argument is supported by interlocking investigations of lexicography, divination, diet, figurines, social history, and religion. There are also extended discussions of Babylonian word play and ancient literary interpretation. Besides arguing for Ea's duplicity, the book explores its implications - for narrative sophistication in Gilgamesh, for audiences and performance of the poem, and for the relation of the Gilgamesh Flood story to the versions in Atra-hasis, the Hellenistic historian Berossos, and the Biblical Book of Genesis. Ea's Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story will interest Assyriologists, Hebrew Bible scholars and Classicists, but also students and researchers in all areas concerned with Gilgamesh, word play, oracles, and traditions about the Flood"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Ea's duplicity in the Gilgamesh flood story / Martin Worthington.

Author/creator	Worthington, Martin
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Description	xxxii, 489 pages ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks
Subjects	Gilgamesh. Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian--History and criticism. Deluge. Plays on words.

Series	The ancient word
Contents	"Interrogating" Babylonian narrative poetry -- "Identifying" puns -- The high concentration of puns in the Gilgame¿Ł: flood story -- The lines about the flood hero -- Raining "plenty": u¿Łaznanakkunu¿Łi nuh'¿Łam-ma -- The birds: [hi'ib] ishurati -- The fish: puzur nuni -- The harvest: [...] me¿Łr©Ø eburam-ma -- "Cakes at dawn": ina ser(-)kukki -- "In the evening": ina lil©Øti -- The "rain of wheat": sam©¿t kibati -- Recapitulation -- Issues of textual history -- Meaning and performance -- Outlining the problems -- Does Atra-has♯±s "fill in the gaps"? -- Communications between Ea and the flood hero -- Communication between the flood hero and the people of Shuruppak -- Ea's elusiveness -- The enigma of uta-napisti -- Why the "gaps"? -- Ea's duplicity and Babylonian/Assyrian divination -- Beyond cuneiform.
Abstract	"This volume opens up new perspectives on Babylonian and Assyrian literature, through the lens of a pivotal passage in the Gilgamesh Flood story. It shows how, using a nine-line message where not all was as it seemed, the god Ea inveigled humans into building the Ark. The volume argues that Ea used a 'bitextual' message: one which can be understood in different ways that sound the same. His message thus emerges as an ambivalent oracle in the tradition of 'folktale prophecy'. The argument is supported by interlocking investigations of lexicography, divination, diet, figurines, social history, and religion. There are also extended discussions of Babylonian word play and ancient literary interpretation. Besides arguing for Ea's duplicity, the book explores its implications - for narrative sophistication in Gilgamesh, for audiences and performance of the poem, and for the relation of the Gilgamesh Flood story to the versions in Atra-hasis, the Hellenistic historian Berossos, and the Biblical Book of Genesis. Ea's Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story will interest Assyriologists, Hebrew Bible scholars and Classicists, but also students and researchers in all areas concerned with Gilgamesh, word play, oracles, and traditions about the Flood"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages [421]-460) and indexes.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2019016908
ISBN	9781138388925 (hbk)
ISBN	(ebk)

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