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Ea's Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story (Paperback)
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Ea's Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story (Paperback)
Series: The Ancient Word
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This volume opens up new perspectives on Babylonian and Assyrian
literature, through the lens of a pivotal passage in the Gilgamesh
Flood story. It shows how, using a nine-line message where not all
was as it seemed, the god Ea inveigled humans into building the
Ark. The volume argues that Ea used a 'bitextual' message: one
which can be understood in different ways that sound the same. His
message thus emerges as an ambivalent oracle in the tradition of
'folktale prophecy'. The argument is supported by interlocking
investigations of lexicography, divination, diet, figurines, social
history, and religion. There are also extended discussions of
Babylonian word play and ancient literary interpretation. Besides
arguing for Ea's duplicity, the book explores its implications -
for narrative sophistication in Gilgamesh, for audiences and
performance of the poem, and for the relation of the Gilgamesh
Flood story to the versions in Atra-hasis, the Hellenistic
historian Berossos, and the Biblical Book of Genesis. Ea's
Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story will interest
Assyriologists, Hebrew Bible scholars and Classicists, but also
students and researchers in all areas concerned with Gilgamesh,
word-play, oracles, and traditions about the Flood.
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