The buried foundation of the Gilgamesh epic: the Akkadian Huwawa narrative
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Main Author: Fleming, Daniel E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill 2010
Series:Cuneiform monographs 39
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Abbreviations; Table 1: Early Second-Millennium Gilgamesh Narrative; Table 2: Reconstructed Relationships between Early Second-Millennium Gilgamesh Compositions; Foreword; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two Enkidu's First Steppe: Competing Portraits of Enkidu in Yale and Penn; Chapter Three Defining the Bounds of the Akkadian Huwawa Narrative; Chapter Four From Sumerian to Akkadian: Major Innovations in the Akkadian Huwawa Tale; Chapter Five Behind Penn: Old Babylonian Introductions to the Huwawa Narrative and to the Epic; Chapter Six Conclusion; Bibliography
Based on contrasting characterization and narrative logic between the central Huwawa episode and the remaining material for the earliest Akkadian Gilgamesh, this book challenges the accepted notion that the famous epic was composed without recourse to a previous Akkadian narrative
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 227 pages)
ISBN:9004178481
9047440838
9789004178489
9789047440833

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