Mythology and mythologies
Subtitle: methodological approaches to intercultural influences : proceedings of the second annual Symposium of the Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project held in Paris, France, Oct. 4-7, 1999
By: edited by R.M. Whiting.
Contributors: Whiting, Robert M.; Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project.
Series: Melammu symposia -- 2
Publisher: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Helsinki
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Mythology -- Comparative studies -- Congresses.; Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian -- Congresses.
Genres: Comparative studies; Congresses.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / R.M. Whiting; title: The shape of the Melammu database / R.M. Whiting; title: The epic of Gilgamesh and the Homeric epics / T. Abusch; title: Ninurta and the Son of Man / A. Annus; title: Ths story of Combabos and the Gilgamesh tradition / C. Grottanelli; title: Ritual, economy, and the religion of ancient Israel / I. Gruenwald; title: Descent and ascent in Islamic myth / J. Hämeen-Anttila; title: Mesopotamian precursors to the stoic concept of logos / J.N. Lawson; title: Akkadian rituals and poetry of divine love / M. Nissinen; title: The ethnic, linguistic and cultural identity of modern Assyrians / E.Y. Odisho; title: Between Mesopotamia and India : some remarks about the unicorn cycle in Iran / A. Panaino; title: Mesopotamian precursors of the Hymn of teh pearl / S. Parpola; title: The other and the enemy in the Mesopotamian conception of the world / B. Pongratz-Leisten; title: The ancient Greeks and the impact of the ancient Near East : textual evidence and historical perspective (ca. 750-650 BC) / R. Rollinger; title: Enūma eliš adn the transmission of Babylonian cosmology to the West / P. Talon; title: The roots of teh messianic idea / M. Weinfeld.