The Scourge of God (Paperback)

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2011

9521013354 / 9789521013355

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Paperback. Who were the Umman-manda? This is a question that has vexed Assyriologists since the early days of the discipline, particularly because the question has different answers at different times and in different places: Hurrians, Elamites, Medes, Cimmerians, Scythiansall have been cast as the Umman-manda by various peoples at various times.With intractable questions such as this, it is useful on occasion to recapitulate all the evidence that applies to the question, to integrate new evidence that has appeared since the last recapitulation, and to see if a new synthesis of the evidence is possible. In this work, Adali does precisely that. After collecting all the textual references to the Umman-manda, the author analyzes the writings, surveys the eytmologies proposed for the term Umman-manda over the years, and finally offers a new proposal for the etymology. He then investigates the nonliterary texts that mention the Umman-manda, seeking clues to their origins and ethnic makeup, finding, as others have, that the evidence is inconclusive and sometimes even contradictory.Turning to the literary texts as a source for the Umman-manda, the author finds more fertile ground. Leaving aside the potential historical kernel of the Cuthaean Legend of Naram-Sin because the available evidence does not speak to this issue, Adali turns his investigation to the Umman-manda as a literary topos. By investigating the motifs and terminology used in the Cuthaean Legend and comparing them with similar usage in other literary works, the author is able to establish a leitmotif for the Umman-manda and then identify this leitmotif in the royal inscriptions of Assyrian and Babylonian kings.While the question of who the original Umman-manda were remains a mystery, Adalis work offers new insights and a new outlook on the significance of the Umman-manda in the first millennium and particularly on the question of why the Umman-manda meant different things to different people at different times while, nevertheless, not all enemies were referred to as Umman-Manda. It provides a new departure point for further investigations of the Umman-manda as well as for the use of literary allusions in both Assyro-Babylonian literature and royal inscriptions. Revised and updated version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2009. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Titel
The Scourge of God (Paperback)
Autor
Selim Adali
Verlag
Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
Zustand
new
Einband
Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
9521013354
ISBN-13
9789521013355

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