Guides to the Mesopotamian Textual Record
(GMTR)
 

Editors :   Eckart Frahm - Michael Jursa
     
The series Guides to the Mesopotamian Record provides concise treatments of individual groups, or genres, of cuneiform texts. It targets an audience of specialists, both students and scholars, by presenting up-to-date surveys of the status quaestionis, but also strives to make the results of recent scholarship in Assyriology more accessible to the non-specialist audience of scholars from other fields, such as theologians, classicists, Egyptologists and historians of literature, religion, science and economics. Future volumes will treat Mesopotamian literature, lexicography, divination, medicine and magic, as well as commentaries, Assyrian and Babylonian royal inscriptions and Assyrian archival documents.
   
   
1
Michael Jursa : 2005                                          xii + 189 pp. 
Neo-Babylonian Legal and  ISBN 3-934628-69-9              28,- EUR
Administrative Documents.
Typology, Contents and Archives
     
1. Introduction
2. Neo-Babylonian archival documents as material objects
3. Personal names
4. The principal text types and their subject matter
5. Some quantitative data
6. Neo-Babylonian archives: generalities
7. The main archives
8. Abbreviations
9. Bibliography
10. Indexes
     
2
Benjamin R. Foster : 2007                                               xii + 147 pp.
Akkadian Literature of the Late Period ISBN 978-3-934628-70-0            28,- EUR
   
B.R. Forster surveys the literature of Babylonia and Assyria from 1200 BCE to the beginning of the Christian Era. Based on his experience as editor and translator, he provides readers with an  overview of all genres (historical literature, epics, hymns, fables, wisdom literature ...). Augmented by an extensive bibliography and index, the books is designed to be used as a reference volume both by scholars and students.
   
1. Reading Akkadian Literature Today

2. Human Experience in Akkadian Literature

 2.1. The Remote Past; 2.2. The Dramatic Present and the Beginning of Modern Times; 2.3. The Envisioned Future: Literary Prophecies; 2.4. Ancient Wisdom; 2.5. The Human Plight; 2.6. Fables: 2.7. Debates; 2.8. Humorous Stories; 2.9. Parody and Satire; 2.10. Jokes and Riddles; 2.11. Love Lyrics; 2.12. Laments; 2.13. Praise of Kings, Cities, and Temples; 2.14. Autobiographical Reflection
3. Confronting the Divine in Akkadian Literature 3.1. Mythology: Stories about the Gods; 3.2. Mythology: Stories about Gods and Human Beeings; 3.3. Devotion: Speaking to the Gods; 3.4. Divine Speech : the Magic Arts; 3.5. Divine Speech in Oracles; 3.6. Visions of the Netherworld; 3.7. Laments over Gods
4. Aspects of Akkadian Literature of the Lalte Period
5. Bibliography
6. Index
3
Karen Radner : ISBN 3-934628-71-0
Assyrian Archival Documents. (not yet published)
Letters, Legal Records and
Administrative Texts
      
4
Rocío Da Riva : 2008                                             xiv + 162 pp.
The Neo-Babylonian Royal Inscriptions. ISBN 978-3-934628-83-0                  28,- EUR
An Introduction
   
Rocío Da Riva provides the reader with a detailed overview of the Neo-Babylonian royal inscriptions that were among the first cuneiform documents discovered in Mesopotamia by early western travellers and scholars: "The scope of this book is to give a brief introduction (...) and to familiarize the non-specialist with this textual corpus without sacrificing the precision an Assyriologist would expect." Her study covers various aspects of these texts: their findspots, the process of their creation, their writing and the language of the inscriptions, questions of chronology, and their structure and contents.
   
1. Introduction    

2. Definition, classification and function of the royal inscriptions

3. The media of the royal inscriptions
4. The process towards the creation of a royal inscription: circumstances of composition
5. The findspots of the inscriptions
6. Dating the royal inscriptions
7. Writing
8. The language of the inscriptions
9. Structure of the inscriptions
10. The contents of the inscriptions
11. Conclusions
12. Appendices
13. Abbreviations
14. Bibliography
15. Indices
16. Concordance of inscriptions

 

 

 

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