The Exegetical Terminology of Akkadian Commentaries

In The Exegetical Terminology of Akkadian Commentaries Uri Gabbay offers a detailed study of the well-developed set of technical terms found in ancient Mesopotamian commentaries from the first millennium BCE, essential for reconstructing ancient scholarly discourse and hermeneutics.

About the author

Uri Gabbay is a senior lecturer in Assyriology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He has published extensively on Sumerian and Akkadian literature, including Pacifying the Hearts of the Gods: Sumerian Emesal Prayers of the First Millennium BCE (Wiesbaden, 2014).

Product details

• Authors: Uri Gabbay
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9789004323469
• ISBN: 978-90-04-32346-9
• No. of pages: 372
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 646 g
• Series: Culture and History of the Anc
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics