Style and Form in Old-Babylonian Literary Texts

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-04-12404-2
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 240 Seiten, Gewicht: 637 g

Reihe: Cuneiform Monographs

Basing himself on a careful study of all hitherto published (and some unpublished) Old-Babylonian literary texts - roughly 270 different compositions of all literary genres - Dr. Wasserman systematically leads the reader to a number of insightful conclusions regarding distinctive style and outstanding features of the Old-Babylonian literary system (as opposed to everyday texts, such as letters).
The three opening chapters - Hendiadys, Tamyiz, and Damqam-inim - are mainly concerned with syntax, but also connections with inalienability, a semantic issue. Chapter four and five, Merismus and Simile, focus on semantics (though also including word order).
The last chapter, Rhyming Couplets, is fully devoted to form, with elaborations on such semantic problems as performative speech acts. The concluding pages delineate the contours of the Old-Babylonian literary system; genres and 'genre-families', the dichotomy between oral and written traditions, and the distinction between learned and popular literature.
With a detailed catalogue of all known literary Old-Babylonian compositions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wasserman, Nathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Über Autor(innen)

Nathan Wasserman, Ph.D. (1993) in Assyriology, the Hebrew University Jerusalem, is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Assyriology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are in Old-Babylonian literature and Old-Babylonian epistolary grammar.