Search Results for: The Babylonian Disputation Poems

The Babylonian Disputation Poems studies a group of ancient Babylonian poems featuring discussions between animals and trees. It contains editions of several ne

Disputation literature is a type of text in which usually two non-human entities (such as trees, animals, drinks, or seasons) try to establish their superiority

In Weapons of Words Selena Wisnom offers a literary study of three poems central to Babylonian culture: Anzû, Enūma eliš, and Erra and Išum, demonstrating h

In Dialogue on Monarchy in the Gideon-Abimelech Narrative, Albert Sui Hung Lee applies Bakhtin’s dialogism to uncover pro- and anti-monarchical voices in the

Takayoshi Oshima analyses the two most important Babylonian wisdom texts: Ludlul Bel Nemeqi (also known as the Babylonian Job or the Babylonian Righteous Suffer