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Journal articles on the topic "Ancient Mesopotamian Text"

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Ossendrijver, Mathieu. "A Simulation-Based View on Mesopotamian Computational Practices." Claroscuro. Revista del Centro de Estudios sobre Diversidad Cultural, no. 20 (December 30, 2021): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.35305/cl.vi20.66.

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It is argued that iterative computations which are attested in Mesopotamian and other ancient sources can be productively analyzed and interpreted in a simulation-based framework. Ancient Mesopotamia present us with a rich body of textual evidence for computational practices over a period of more than three millennia. This paper is concerned with Mesopotamian iterative computations of empirical phenomena, where each iteration updates the values of certain quantities from one state to the next state. It will be argued that these computations can be fruitfully interpreted in the so-called simula
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Yu, Shuqian. "The Role of Death in the Epic of Gilgamesh." Communications in Humanities Research 19, no. 1 (2023): 210–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/19/20231247.

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Humans fear of death and pursuit of eternal life have long been reflected in literary texts. As a representative of ancient Mesopotamian literature, the epic of Gilgamesh not only symbolizes the peak of Near Eastern epics, but also brings an ultimate proposition into literature for the first timeHow to resist the fear of death and how to achieve infinite immortality in a finite life. This paper consists of three parts. The first part is the introduction, which introduces the background and significance of the research. The second part is the text analysis, and the third part is the analysis of
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Crocker, Richard L. "Mesopotamian tonal systems." Iraq 59 (1997): 189–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021088900003417.

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In his article “Babylonian Music Again”, O. R. Gumey provides a welcome update on research on the tablets concerning music of the ancient Near East. Gurney's article also has a corrective effect on a rambunctious article by Martin West that appeared shortly before. Gurney seems to me to have the musical system almost right. West, while he seems to understand the system, presents it in ways that I find illogical, and that I fear will be confusing or misleading. Furthermore, while some of West's conclusions exceed the span of even my own irresponsible imagination, some of his other conclusions s
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Fetaya, Ethan, Yonatan Lifshitz, Elad Aaron, and Shai Gordin. "Restoration of fragmentary Babylonian texts using recurrent neural networks." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 37 (2020): 22743–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2003794117.

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The main sources of information regarding ancient Mesopotamian history and culture are clay cuneiform tablets. Many of these tablets are damaged, leading to missing information. Currently, the missing text is manually reconstructed by experts. We investigate the possibility of assisting scholars, by modeling the language using recurrent neural networks and automatically completing the breaks in ancient Akkadian texts from Achaemenid period Babylonia.
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Kurtik, Gennady E. "On the origin of the 12 zodiac constellation system in ancient Mesopotamia." Journal for the History of Astronomy 52, no. 1 (2021): 53–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021828620980544.

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This article pursues two main goals: (1) to reconstruct the history of the 12 zodiac constellation system in the astronomy of ancient Mesopotamia; (2) to reveal traces of this system directly in cuneiform texts. Among the most important circumstances led to appearance of this system: (1) development of ideas about the band of zodiac constellations, including—according to MUL.APIN—the total of 18 (or 17) constellations; (2) usage of the schematic year, containing 12 months, 30 days each, and (3) development of ideas about mathematical or uniform zodiac, subdivided into 12 equal parts, 30° each.
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Cecilia, Ludovica. "A Late Composition Dedicated to Nergal." Altorientalische Forschungen 46, no. 2 (2019): 204–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aofo-2019-0014.

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Abstract This article treats a composition that was probably dedicated to Nergal, a god with a long cultic tradition in ancient Mesopotamia who was mainly related to war and death. The text was first edited by Böhl (1949; 1953: 207–216, 496–497), followed by Ebeling (1953: 116–117). Later, Seux (1976: 85–88) and Foster (2005: 708–709) translated and commented upon it. I will present a new reading of the invocation on the tablet’s upper edge, which confirms that the tablet originated in Uruk during the Hellenistic period. Furthermore, I will discuss the many Neo-Babylonian and Late Babylonian g
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Sanders, Seth. "OLD LIGHT ON MOSES' SHINING FACE." Vetus Testamentum 52, no. 3 (2002): 400–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853302760197520.

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AbstractThe crux of Moses' shining face in Ex. xxxiv is explained by first-millennium Mesopotamian astronomical and lexical sources which attest an ancient understanding of light as material. Moses' face could, quite literally, radiate horns of light, and the need to translate the term as either divine radiance or physical protuberance is a side-effect of modern conceptual categories, irrelevant to ancient Israelite ideas. Furthermore, the well known ancient Jewish tradition of Moses' coronation, and his divine physical transformation attested in newly published Midrashic sources suggests an a
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Grekyan, Yervand. "Evidence of celestial phenomena in Urartian cuneiform texts?" ARAMAZD: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies 13, no. 1 (2019): 81–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.32028/ajnes.v13i1.952.

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Unlike the ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform sources, there is no direct evidence of keeping records of celestial objects or astronomical phenomena in the corpus of the Urartian cuneiform texts. In spite of this, astral scenes are widely represented in religious symbolism and iconography of Urartian bronze art. An exceptional evidence of an Urartian cuneiform text could fill the lack of information, perhaps, pointing out the apparition of a comet.
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Schwemer, Daniel. "The Storm-Gods of the Ancient Near East: Summary, Synthesis, Recent Studies Part I." Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 7, no. 2 (2007): 121–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156921207783876404.

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AbstractIn many regions of the ancient Near East, not least in Upper Mesopotamia, Syria and Anatolia where agriculture relied mainly on rainfall, storm-gods ranked among the most prominent gods in the local panthea or were even regarded as divine kings, ruling over the gods and bestowing kingship on the human ruler. While the Babylonian and Assyrian storm-god never held the highest position among the gods, he too belongs to the group of 'great gods' through most periods of Mesopotamian history. Given the many cultural contacts and the longevity of traditions in the ancient Near East only a stu
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Schwemer, Daniel. "The Storm-Gods of the Ancient Near East: Summary, Synthesis, Recent Studies: Part II." Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 8, no. 1 (2008): 1–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156921208786182428.

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AbstractIn many regions of the ancient Near East, not least in Upper Mesopotamia, Syria and Anatolia where agriculture relied mainly on rainfall, storm-gods ranked among the most prominent gods in the local panthea or were even regarded as divine kings, ruling over the gods and bestowing kingship on the human ruler. While the Babylonian and Assyrian storm-god never held the highest position among the gods, he too belongs to the group of 'great gods' through most periods of Mesopotamian history. Given the many cultural contacts and the longevity of traditions in the ancient Near East only a stu
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Ancient Mesopotamian Text"

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Simonson, Brandon. "Aramaic names from Syro-Mesopotamian texts and inscriptions: a comprehensive study." Thesis, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/37993.

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Scholarship on the onomastics of the ancient Near East typically evaluates a single text corpus or collection of names from a specific region, with a focus on names of a variety of linguistic origins from either alphabetic or cuneiform source material. This dissertation serves as a compilation of Aramaic names from both alphabetic and cuneiform sources geographically delimited to Syria, Mesopotamia, and the Levant (excluding Egypt and Anatolia) during the first half of the first millennium BCE. The product of a methodic evaluation of ancient Near Eastern texts and inscriptions, utilizing both
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Schneider, Catharina Elizabeth Johanna. "The warrior ethos within the context of the Ancient Near East : an archaeological and historical comparison between the world-views of warriors of the Fertile Crescent." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2778.

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Thesis (D. Litt. et Phil. (Biblical Studies))<br>The Fertile Crescent, due to its geographical characteristics, has always been an area troubled with conflict and warfare. The men who participated in these wars, from ca 2000 BCE to 1000 BCE operated from an ethos which was governed by a system of rules, all which were conceived to be the creation of divine will, to which kings and their warriors (keymen) were subject. The cuneiform texts from Mari, Ugarit, Ebla, Amarna and others, have not only thrown light on the political, social, religious and military aspects of those turbulent times,
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Books on the topic "Ancient Mesopotamian Text"

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Christopher, Walker, and Dick Michael, eds. The induction of the cult image in ancient Mesopotamia: The Mesopotamian Mīs Pî ritual. Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Univesity of Helsinki, 2001.

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Christopher, Walker, and Dick Michael Brennan 1943-, eds. The induction of the cult image in ancient Mesopotamia: The Mesopotamian Mĭs Pî ritual. Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Univesity of Helsinki, 2001.

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E, Cohen Mark. The canonical lamentations of ancient Mesopotamia. Capital Decisions Ltd, 1988.

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Marchesi, Gianni. LUMMA in the onomasticon and literature of ancient Mesopotamia. Sargon, 2006.

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Yuhong, Wu, ed. Gu dai liang he liu yu xie xing wen zi jing dian ju yao: Hanmulabi fa dian, Marui wang shi dang an di 4 juan xin jian, Yashu wang Xinnaheruibu ba ci zhan yi ming ji = Selected texts of ancient Mesopotamia : Code of Hammurabi, Archives Royales de Mari IV, lettres, Chicago prism of Sennacherib. Heilongjiang ren min chu ban she, 2006.

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Tervanotko, Hanna, and Jonathan Stökl, eds. Text as Revelation. T&T CLARK, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780567689740.

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Text as Revelation analyses the shift of revelatory experiences from oral to written that is described in ancient Jewish literature, including rabbinic texts. The individual essays seek to understand how, why, and for whom texts became the locus of revelation. While the majority of the contributors analyse ancient Jewish literature for depictions of oral and written revelation, such as the Hebrew Bible and the literature of the Second Temple era, a number of articles also investigate textualization of revelation in cognate cultures, analysing Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Greek sources. With subj
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Balogh, Amy L. Moses among the Idols. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2018. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978720817.

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In Moses among the Idols: Mediators of the Divine in the Ancient Near East, Balogh simultaneously redefines one of the greatest figures in the history of religion and challenges the historically popular understanding of ancient Mesopotamian idols as the idle objects of antiquated faiths. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and methods of comparison, Balogh not only offers new insight into the lives of idols as active mediators between humanity and divinity, she also makes the case that when it comes to understanding the figure of Moses, Mesopotamian idols are the best analogy that the ancien
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Steymans, Hans Ulrich, ed. Ancient Near Eastern Iconography and the Bible. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780567691859.

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Examines the dilemma of whether ancient Near Eastern images – while providing unique aspects of the world-views of the cultures from which the Bible arose – can be interpreted in a way that traceably relates them to the biblical text. To avoid the danger of using images merely as illustrations for concepts found in the Bible, one first needs to behold the image with its own right to been seen. The essays within this volume describe the methods developed by Othmar Keel for bringing imagery into a dialogue with texts from the ancient Orient and their own interpretation, including previously unpu
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The Canonical lamentations of ancient Mesopotamia. Capital Decisions, 1988.

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Reid, J. Nicholas. Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192849618.001.0001.

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Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia: Confinement and Control until the First Fall of Babylon explores the earliest historical evidence related to imprisonment in the history of the world. While many historical investigations into prisons have revolved around the important question of punishment, this work moves beyond that more narrow approach to consider the multifunctional practices of detaining the body in ancient Iraq. It is the contention of this book that imprisonment arose out of the desire to control and detain the body in relation to labor. The practice of detainment for coercion became ad
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Book chapters on the topic "Ancient Mesopotamian Text"

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Peled, Ilan. "Mesopotamian Rituals Using Makeshift Gates in the Private Domain (Text 33)." In Magical Passages in Ancient Near Eastern Rituals. Routledge, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003636397-11.

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Gabbay, Uri. "How Should We Read Ancient Mesopotamian Ritual Texts?" In Rituals, Memory, and Societal Dynamics: Contributions to Social Archaeology. Brepols Publishers, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1484/m.lema-eb.5.144078.

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Peled, Ilan. "Mesopotamian Rituals Using the House Door (Texts 34?????????42)." In Magical Passages in Ancient Near Eastern Rituals. Routledge, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003636397-12.

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Jiménez, Enrique. "Quotations for Lexical Lists and Other Texts in Later Mesopotamian Commentaries." In Semitic Languages and Cultures. Open Book Publishers, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0375.01.

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Lists represent the oldest, and most pervasive, scholarly genre in ancient Mesopotamia. Cuneiform commentaries, first attested in the first millennium BCE, can be regarded as a genre derived from lexical lists. The contribution by Enrique Jiménez studies the ways in which lexical lists are cited in commentaries, and compares them with quotations from texts other than lexical lists.
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Peled, Ilan. "Mesopotamian Rituals Using Makeshift Structures in the Private Domain (Texts 27?????????32)." In Magical Passages in Ancient Near Eastern Rituals. Routledge, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003636397-10.

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Peled, Ilan. "Mesopotamian Rituals Using Makeshift Structures in the Public Domain (Texts 25?????????26)." In Magical Passages in Ancient Near Eastern Rituals. Routledge, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003636397-9.

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Proust, Christine. "Volume, Brickage and Capacity in Old Babylonian Mathematical Texts from Southern Mesopotamia." In Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98361-1_4.

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Römer, Thomas. "Biblical Aniconism? Representing the Gods of Ancient Israel and Judah." In When Children Draw Gods. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94429-2_14.

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AbstractThis paper argues that one should not speak of an “original aniconism” in the cult of Yhwh, the god of Israel. In the Northern kingdom and in the first temple of Jerusalem, this god was represented in a theriomorphic and anthropomorphic way. The prohibitions of images of the god of Israel in the Decalogue and other texts were written after the Babylonian exile and are related to the rise of monotheism. During the Persian period Yhwh became the “only” and transcendent god who could no longer be represented by statues or other symbols as were the Mesopotamian gods. However, the Menorah,
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Nowicki, Stefan. "The Role of Women in the Light of Royal Texts from Ancient Mesopotamia." In Dominant, verführend, ewig schuld. V&R unipress, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14220/9783737014045.19.

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Hornkohl, Aaron D. "1. The Onomasticon with and without yahu Names." In Semitic Languages and Cultures. Open Book Publishers, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0433.01.

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The chapter examines the evolution of Hebrew onomastics, with special focus on the use of Yahwistic names (names containing the divine element Yhwh) in the Bible. Apparently early biblical texts, like the books of the Torah, Joshua, Judges, and Samuel, contain very few Yahwistic names, in contrast to monarchic and post-exilic periods, where such names are prominent. Th absence of Yahwistic names in Genesis–Samuel suggests that they reliably reflect pre-monarchic naming traditions in which yahu names had yet to become common. One may thus hypothesise three stages in yahu naming practices: pre-m
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