The Meaning of Sacred Names and Babylonian Scholarship: The Gula Hymn and other works

Elizabeth A. Bennett

doi:10.5771/9783963271717

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2022
Copyright Year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-3-96327-170-0
ISBN-Online: 978-3-96327-171-7
Publisher: Zaphon, Münster
Series: dubsar / Altorientalistische Publikationen / Publications on the Ancient Near East
Volume: 25
Language: English
Pages: 463
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Preface and acknowledgements No access
1. 1.1 Names No access
2. 1.2 Babylonian speculative scholarship No access
3. 1.3 The Gula hymn No access
4. 1.4 Implications and conclusions No access
1. 1. 2.1.1 Lexical tradition No access
  2. 2.1.2 Bilingual translations No access
  3. 2.1.3 Omen tradition No access
2. 2.2 Commentary texts No access
3. 2.3 Sacred names and speculative scholarship No access
4. 1. 2.4.1 Expository texts No access
  2. 2.4.2 Explanatory works No access
  3. 2.4.3 Commentary texts No access
  4. 2.4.4 Akkadian expressions No access
  5. 2.4.5 Speculative interpretation in the Old Babylonian period No access
5. 2.5 Modern scholarship No access
6. 2.6 Text corpus No access
1. 1. 3.1.1 Translation No access
  2. 3.1.2 Free rendering No access
  3. 3.1.3 Speculative interpretation No access
2. 1. 3.2.1 Translation of individual elements No access
  2. 3.2.2 Speculative translation No access
  3. 3.2.3 Free rendering and free association No access
  4. 3.2.4 Free handling of order No access
  5. 3.2.5 Not all elements used No access
  6. 3.2.6 Determinative given equivalence No access
  7. 3.2.7 Element interpreted as determinative No access
  8. 3.2.8 Form freedom No access
  9. 3.2.9 Plural freely inferred No access
  10. 3.2.10 Emesal No access
  11. 3.2.11 Homophony No access
  12. 3.2.12 Polyvalence No access
  13. 3.2.13 Homophony and polyvalence together No access
  14. 3.2.14 Akkadian homophony No access
  15. 3.2.15 Near-homophony No access
  16. 3.2.16 Vowels No access
  17. 3.2.17 Consonantal groups No access
  18. 3.2.18 Part only of element used No access
  19. 3.2.19 Contrived orthography No access
  20. 3.2.20 Different elements, single equivalence No access
  21. 3.2.21 Repeated use of elements No access
  22. 3.2.22 Reduplicated elements No access
  23. 3.2.23 Abbreviation No access
  24. 3.2.24 Phonological reversal No access
  25. 3.2.25 Graphic interpretation No access
  26. 3.2.26 Older forms No access
  27. 3.2.27 Multiple possibilities No access
1. 4.1 The texts No access
2. 4.2 The overlap No access
3. 1. 4.3.1 Synopsis of the Gula hymn No access
  2. 4.3.2 Themes and Motifs in the Gula hymn No access
  3. 4.3.3 The Gula hymn as a literary and scholarly composition No access
4. 4.4 The context of the Gula hymn No access
5. 4.5 Date of composition No access
1. 1. 5.1.1 K 232+3371+13776 (Ms. A) No access
  2. 5.1.2 VAT 9670 + VAT 9931 (KAR 109+343) (Ms. B) No access
  3. 5.1.3 BM 36333 (Ms. a) No access
  4. 5.1.4 BM 34399 (Ms. b) No access
  5. 5.1.5 BM 37616 (Ms. c) No access
  6. 5.1.6 BM 75974 (Ms. d) No access
  7. 5.1.7 BM 76319 (Ms. e) No access
  8. 5.1.8 BM 68611 (Ms. f) No access
2. 5.2 Table of Manuscripts and earlier editions No access
3. 1. 5.3.1 The Manuscripts and the text of the Gula hymn No access
  2. 5.3.2 Textual variations and orthography No access
  3. 5.3.3 Logographic writing No access
  4. 5.3.4 Forms No access
4. 5.4 Transliteration and Translation of the Gula hymn No access
5. 5.5 Commentary No access
1. 6.1 Analysis: Speculative interpretation in the Gula hymn No access
2. 6.2 Encoded names No access
3. 1. 6.3.1 Akkadian homophony No access
  2. 6.3.2 Near-homophony No access
  3. 6.3.3 Unusual writings No access
  4. 6.3.4 Graphic interpretation No access
  5. 6.3.5 Other features and speculative methods No access
1. 1. 7.1.1 A written phenomenon? No access
  2. 7.1.2 Were there any limits? No access
2. 7.2 The Gula hymn No access
3. 7.3 Babylonian speculative scholarship and Jewish scholarship No access
4. 7.4 The meaning of biblical names – Babylonian parallels? No access
5. 7.5 Conclusion No access
Appendix 1 Copy of BM 34399 (Sp. 518) No access Pages 429 - 430
Appendix 2 Temples and shrines found only in the Gula hymn No access Pages 431 - 432
Bibliographical and other abbreviations No access Pages 433 - 436
Bibliography No access Pages 437 - 454
Index No access Pages 455 - 461