The composition and tradition of Erimḫuš

"With The Composition and Tradition of Erimḫuš, Kaira Boddy offers the first comprehensive study of the lexical list Erimḫuš. Boddy gives a detailed analysis of its structure and the ways in which the text and its role in scribal scholarship changed over time. Erimḫuš was highly valued by the A...

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Main Author: Boddy, Kaira 1988- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill [2021]
In: Cuneiform monographs (volume 52)
Year: 2021
Reviews:[Rezension von: Boddy, Kaira, 1988-, The composition and tradition of Erimḫuš] (2023) (Pfitzner, Judith)
Series/Journal:Cuneiform monographs volume 52
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Akkadian language
B Sumerian language / Hamito-semitic languages
B Cuneiform
Further subjects:B Thesis
Parallel Edition:Electronic
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Summary:"With The Composition and Tradition of Erimḫuš, Kaira Boddy offers the first comprehensive study of the lexical list Erimḫuš. Boddy gives a detailed analysis of its structure and the ways in which the text and its role in scribal scholarship changed over time. Erimḫuš was highly valued by the Assyrian and Babylonian scholars of the first millennium BCE and several centuries earlier even caught the interest of the Hittites, who had their own ingenious ways of interpreting and using the material. Originally a bilingual list collecting groups of Akkadian words and their Sumerian equivalents, Erimḫuš took on a radically different character in Ḫattuša"--
Item Description:Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Freie Universität Berlin, 2017
ISBN:9004438165