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The Babylonian Disputation Poems: With Editions of the Series of the Poplar, Palm and Vine, the Series of the Spider, and the Story of the Poor, Forlo

The Babylonian Disputation Poems: With Editions of the Series of the Poplar, Palm and Vine, the Series of the Spider, and the Story of the Poor, Forlo

Jiménez, Enrique

Hardcover

Ancient History GeneralPoetry AnthologiesGeneral European History

ISBN10: 9004336257
ISBN13: 9789004336254
Publisher: Brill
Published: Feb 16 2017
Pages: 526
Weight: 2.00
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
In The Babylonian Disputation Poems Enrique Jiménez studies a group of ancient Babylonian poems that feature discussions between animals and trees. Using intertextual parallels and comparison with similar works in other literatures, he espouses a new classification of the Babylonian disputation poems as parodies. After examining neighboring traditions of literary disputation, he argues that the Babylonian poems influenced them, and that some may have been translated from Akkadian to Aramaic, from Aramaic and Syriac to Arabic.

In addition, The Babylonian Disputation Poems provides editions of several previously unpublished Babylonian disputations, such as Palm and Vine and the Series of the Spider. It also offers the first edition of the latest known Babylonian fable, The Story of the Poor, Forlorn Wren.

The present book is an exemplary model for editing and commenting upon ancient texts, and almost every approach has been taken into account. -Markham J. Geller, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43.5 (2019)

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