Legends of the Kings of Akkade: The Texts

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Eisenbrauns, 1 gen 1997 - 410 pagine

The most impressive legacy of the Dynasty of Akkade (ca. 2310-2160 B.C.E.) was the widespread, popular legends of its kings. Dr. Westenholz offers an annotated edition of all the known legends of the Akkadian kings, with transliteration, translation, and commentary. Of particular interest to biblical scholars is the inclusion of "The Birth Legend of Sargon," which is often compared to Moses in Exodus.

 

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Introduction
1
Part A
31
Part B
171
Indexes
369
Plates
377
Back Cover
411
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Pagina 25 - There is further an art which imitates by language alone, without harmony, in prose or in verse, and if in verse, either in some one or in a plurality 1447b of metres. This form of imitation is to this day without a name.
Pagina 25 - ... the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in. Even if a theory of medicine or physical philosophy be put forth in a metrical form, it is usual to describe the writer in this way ; Homer and Empedocles, however, have really nothing in common apart from their metre ; so that, if the one is to be called a 2o poet, the other should be termed a physicist rather than a poet.
Pagina 25 - Just as colour and form are used as means by some, who (whether by art or constant practice) imitate and portray many things by their aid, and the voice is used by others; so also in the above-mentioned group of arts, the means with them as a whole are rhythm, language, and harmony — used, however, either singly or in certain combinations.
Pagina 25 - to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in. Even if a theory of medicine or physical philosophy be put forth in a metrical form, it is usual to describe the writer in...
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Pagina 29 - Rhetoric, the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences. Example: "Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world?
Pagina 25 - A certain admixture, accordingly, of unfamiliar terms is necessary. These, the strange word, the metaphor, the ornamental equivalent, etc., will save the language from seeming mean and prosaic, while the ordinary words in it will secure the requisite clearness.
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Pagina 25 - On the other hand the Diction becomes distinguished and nonprosaic by the use of unfamiliar terms, ie strange words, metaphors, lengthened forms, and everything that deviates from the ordinary modes of speech ... A certain admixture, accordingly, of unfamiliar terms is necessary.

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