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Adapa and the south wind : language has the power of life and death /
The scholarly world first became aware of the myth of Adapa and the South Wind when it was discovered on a tablet from the El-Amarna archive in 1887. We now have at our disposal six fragments of the myth. The largest and most important fragment, from Amarna, is dated to the 14th century B.C.E. This...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Winona Lake, Ind. :
Eisenbrauns,
2001.
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| Colección: | Mesopotamian civilizations ;
10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Texts and Fragments
- Ch. 2. Dating and Compositional Factors
- The Amarna Fragment
- The Nineveh Fragments and Their Relationship to the Amarna Fragment
- Excursus: The TMA System and the Narrative Sequence
- The Origins of the Myth
- Ch. 3. The Myth as Poetry
- Poetic Devices
- Red Points and Meter
- Ch. 4. Language Has the Power of Life and Death: Structure and Meaning
- Unfolding the Narrative: The Linguistic Component and Meaningful Structural Ties.