From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe - Literary and Scholarly Texts From the Old Babylonian Period

English translations covering a variety of cuneiform tablets from the Old Babylonian period, belonging to the collection of the late Shlomo Moussaieff.

About the author

Jacob Klein is Professor Emeritus of Assyiology and Biblical Studies at Bar-Ilan University, a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and one of the founders of the Israel Society for Assyriology and Near Eastern Studies. He is the coauthor of In Those Distant Days: Anthology of Mesopotamian Literature.Yitschak Sefati is Senior Research Fellow at the Samuel Noah Kramer Institute of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Bar-Ilan Univesity. He is the author of Love Songs in Sumerian Literature.

Product details

• Authors: Jacob Klein, Jacob (Bar-Ilan University) Klein, Jacob Sefati Klein, Klein Jacob, Yitschak Sefati, Yitschak (Bar-Ilan University) Sefati
• Publisher: Eisenbrauns publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781575067315
• ISBN: 978-1-57506-731-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Mesopotamia, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, HISTORY / Middle East / Iraq, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, c 2000 to c 1000 BCE, Assyro-Babylonian (Akkadian) languages