{"product_id":"mystical-and-mythological-explanatory-works-of-assyrian-and-babylonian-scholars-9781575061337","title":"Mystical and Mythological Explanatory Works of Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cuneiform literature of ancient Mesopotamia is vast, ranging from economic texts, other sorts of record-keeping documents, and letters through texts that modern readers consider literary, including one category that is often considered esoteric. The latter works appear to be attempts on the part of the ancient scribe-scholars to explain parts of their own culture, to elucidate their own traditions. In the mid-1980s, Alasdair Livingstone studied these texts and then published the collection he had gathered. These texts demonstrate that the Assyrian and Babylonian scholars responsible for their creation had their own distinctive ideas about the function of myth and ritual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLivingstone’s study was first published in 1986 by Oxford University Press but has been out of print for a number of years. Eisenbrauns is happy to make it available once again, in a quality hardback reprint.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConventions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Tablets edited and discussed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublications cited by initials, short titles, tablet signatures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart One. Mystical Explanatory Works\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One. Expositions of Mystical Mathematics and Philology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two. Groups of Deities and Parts of the World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three. The God Description Texts: A Mystical Representation of a Deity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Two. Mythological Explanatory Works\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four. Works in Standard Babylonian Explaining State Rituals in Terms of Myths\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five. Other Babylonian Explanatory Works on Rituals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six. Works in Neo-Assyrian Explaining Rituals in Terms of Theology and Mythology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix I. Miscellanea\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix II. Colophons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlates\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188732911959,"sku":"9781575061337","price":44.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mystical-and-mythological-explanatory-works-of-assyrian-and-babylonian-scholars-9781575061337","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}