Mythology and mythologies : methodological approaches to intercultural influences : proceedings of the second annual Symposium of the Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project held in Paris, France, Oct. 4-7, 1999 / edited by R.M. Whiting.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Melammu symposia ; 2Publication details: Helsinki : Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2001.Description: xxv, 288 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 951-45-9049-X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 935.02 M48s v.2
LOC classification:
  • BL 301 .S93 2001
Contents:
Introduction / R.M. Whiting -- The shape of the Melammu database / R.M. Whiting -- The epic of Gilgamesh and the Homeric epics / T. Abusch -- Ninurta and the Son of Man / A. Annus -- Ths story of Combabos and the Gilgamesh tradition / C. Grottanelli -- Ritual, economy, and the religion of ancient Israel / I. Gruenwald -- Descent and ascent in Islamic myth / J. Hämeen-Anttila -- Mesopotamian precursors to the stoic concept of logos / J.N. Lawson --Akkadian rituals and poetry of divine love / M. Nissinen -- The ethnic, linguistic and cultural identity of modern Assyrians / E.Y. Odisho -- Between Mesopotamia and India : some remarks about the unicorn cycle in Iran / A. Panaino -- Mesopotamian precursors of the Hymn of the pearl / S. Parpola -- The other and the enemy in the Mesopotamian conception of the world / B. Pongratz-Leisten -- The ancient Greeks and the impact of the ancient Near East : textual evidence and historical perspective (ca. 750-650 BC) / R. Rollinger -- Enūma eliš and the transmission of Babylonian cosmology to the West / P. Talon -- The roots of the messianic idea / M. Weinfeld.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / R.M. Whiting -- The shape of the Melammu database / R.M. Whiting -- The epic of Gilgamesh and the Homeric epics / T. Abusch -- Ninurta and the Son of Man / A. Annus -- Ths story of Combabos and the Gilgamesh tradition / C. Grottanelli -- Ritual, economy, and the religion of ancient Israel / I. Gruenwald -- Descent and ascent in Islamic myth / J. Hämeen-Anttila -- Mesopotamian precursors to the stoic concept of logos / J.N. Lawson --Akkadian rituals and poetry of divine love / M. Nissinen -- The ethnic, linguistic and cultural identity of modern Assyrians / E.Y. Odisho -- Between Mesopotamia and India : some remarks about the unicorn cycle in Iran / A. Panaino -- Mesopotamian precursors of the Hymn of the pearl / S. Parpola -- The other and the enemy in the Mesopotamian conception of the world / B. Pongratz-Leisten -- The ancient Greeks and the impact of the ancient Near East : textual evidence and historical perspective (ca. 750-650 BC) / R. Rollinger -- Enūma eliš and the transmission of Babylonian cosmology to the West / P. Talon -- The roots of the messianic idea / M. Weinfeld.

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