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This monograph seeks to understand the cultural context and function of wordplay as employed by ancient Mesopotamian dream interpreters and other divinatory experts. The author then aims to use this context to explain the presence of punning in Akkadian literary and epistolary accounts of enigmatic dreams.

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      Publisher: American Oriental Society
      Publication Date: 30/06/2007
      ISBN13: 9780940490208, 978-0940490208
      ISBN10: 094049020X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This monograph seeks to understand the cultural context and function of wordplay as employed by ancient Mesopotamian dream interpreters and other divinatory experts. The author then aims to use this context to explain the presence of punning in Akkadian literary and epistolary accounts of enigmatic dreams.

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