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Reading Course
SoSe 24: (Lk) Akkadian – History
Marine Béranger
Additional information / Pre-requisites
Akkadian is a prerequisite for participation.
Comments
From royal inscriptions to lists of names of years, royal letters, treaties, chronicles and annals, historiographical texts in Akkadian are numerous and an important source for reconstructing the factual history of the ancient Near East and understanding the lessons that the Mesopotamians themselves drew from the past. In this course selected examples from the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC will be read and studied. A good knowledge of close
Suggested reading
Douglas R. Frayne, Old Babylonian Period (2003–1595 BC), The Royal Inscriptions of
Mesopotamia Early Periods 4, Toronto, 1990.
- Grant Frame, Rulers of Babylonia: From the Second Dynasty of Isin to the End of Assyrian Domination (1157–612 BC), The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Babylonian Periods 2, Toronto, 1995.
- Joshua Jeffers and Jamie Novotny,The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššuretel-ilani (630–627 BC), and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 1, University Park/Winona Lake, 2018.
- Joshua Jeffers and Jamie Novotny, The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššuretel-ilani (630–627 BC) and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 2, University Park/Winona Lake, 2023.
- Jean-Jacques Glassner, Mesopotamian Chronicles, SBL Writings from the Ancient World 19, 2004. close
Mesopotamia Early Periods 4, Toronto, 1990.
- Grant Frame, Rulers of Babylonia: From the Second Dynasty of Isin to the End of Assyrian Domination (1157–612 BC), The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Babylonian Periods 2, Toronto, 1995.
- Joshua Jeffers and Jamie Novotny,The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššuretel-ilani (630–627 BC), and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 1, University Park/Winona Lake, 2018.
- Joshua Jeffers and Jamie Novotny, The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššuretel-ilani (630–627 BC) and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 2, University Park/Winona Lake, 2023.
- Jean-Jacques Glassner, Mesopotamian Chronicles, SBL Writings from the Ancient World 19, 2004. close
13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Mon, 2024-04-15 16:00 - 17:00
Mon, 2024-04-22 16:00 - 17:00
Mon, 2024-04-29 16:00 - 17:00
Mon, 2024-05-06 16:00 - 17:00
Mon, 2024-05-13 16:00 - 17:00
Mon, 2024-05-27 16:00 - 17:00
Mon, 2024-06-03 16:00 - 17:00
Mon, 2024-06-10 16:00 - 17:00
Mon, 2024-06-17 16:00 - 17:00
Mon, 2024-06-24 16:00 - 17:00
Mon, 2024-07-01 16:00 - 17:00
Mon, 2024-07-08 16:00 - 17:00
Mon, 2024-07-15 16:00 - 17:00