Prayer from the Past: Ritual Practice and Scribal Imagination in BM 40474 and the Psalms

In a Neo-Babylonian prayer to Marduk (BM 40474), there is a curious inclusion of two colophons indicating competing identities of the speaker. The first colophon identifies the speaker as a non-specific "weary and bound man," while the second introduces the speaker as Nabû-šuma-ukīn, an un...

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Main Author: Elliott, Spencer J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2025
In: Journal of ancient Near Eastern religions
Year: 2025, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 115-141
Further subjects:B Babylonian Chronicles
B Ps 102
B Psalms
B Neo-Babylonian Inscriptions
B Nebuchadnezzar
B Psalm Superscriptions
B David
B BM 40474
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