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Auteur(s) : Worthington, Martin
Titre(s) : Ea's duplicity in the Gilgamesh flood story [Texte imprimé] / Martin Worthington
Publication : Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXXII-489 p.) ; 25 cm
Collection : The ancient word
Lien à la collection : The ancient word (Routledge)
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 421-460. Index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Enki (divinité sumérienne) -- Dans la littérature
Gilgamesh
Littérature assyro-babylonienne
Akkadien (langue)
Épopées assyro-babyloniennes
Indice(s) Dewey :
892.1 (23e éd.) = Littératures sémitiques du groupe oriental Littérature akkadienne (assyro-babylonienne)
[critique]
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781138388925. - ISBN 1138388920. - ISBN 9780429424274 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb465369419
Notice n° :
FRBNF46536941
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : "Interrogating" Babylonian narrative poetry ; "Identifying" puns ; The high concentration
of puns in the Gilgameš: flood story ; The lines about the flood hero ; Raining
"plenty": ušaznanakkunuši nuh'šam-ma ; The birds: [hi'ib] ishurati ; The fish:
puzur nuni ; The harvest: [...] mešrâ eburam-ma ; "Cakes at dawn": ina ser(-)kukki
; "In the evening": ina lilâti ; The "rain of wheat": samût kibati ; Recapitulation
; Issues of textual history ; Meaning and performance ; Outlining the problems
; Does Atra-hasīs "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.