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Literary Criticism Ancient & Classical

Babylonian Historical-Literary Texts

by (author) Albert Kirk Grayson

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Dec 1975
Category
Ancient & Classical, General, Cultural
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    ISBN
    9781487597856
    Publish Date
    Dec 1975
    List Price
    $15.95

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Early Assyriologists were lured to Babylonian studies by the light which cuneiform text shed on ancient history and the Bible, and for later scholars this is still the attraction. The Age of Discovery is not past, and one can still read literature that has been unseen by the eyes of man for millennia. There are myriads of tablets lying in the ancient ruins of Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, waiting for the excavator's spade; in museums there are quantities of inscriptions that have not yet been made public.

About the author

A. Kirk Grayson is a professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Toronto.

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