Ea's Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story

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Ea's Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story

Martin Worthington
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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–hasīs, the Hellenistic historian Berossus, and the Biblic
کال:
2020
خپرندویه اداره:
Routledge
ژبه:
english
ISBN 10:
1032085851
ISBN 13:
9781032085852
فایل:
PDF, 4.32 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2020
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