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• Is Ludlul Wisdom Literature?

  
  Abnormal Interests — Authority: 424
  Over at Feeling Finite . . . , Alan Lenzi provides an engaging discussion of " Ludlul and Wisdom." From a very strictly "indigenous perspective," Alan concludes that it isnt wisdom. But as Alan points out there is more to wisdom than a strictly indigenous perspective, i.e. the more or less official scholarly ...
  1 week ago

• Just In Case

  
  Abnormal Interests — Authority: 424
  In case Halloween doesnt turn out all that happy, you might need this. If a ghost has seized a man, coral, sulfur, yellow sulfur, cedar resin and mandrake: five plants, you mix in blood of a black snake and then you smear it on wherever it hurts him and he will get well. I suppose it works just as well on women. ...
  1 week ago

• Division Of Labor In Healing Rituals

  
  Abnormal Interests — Authority: 424
  Ive been thinking about who gets addressed by whom in Mesopotamia medical rituals like BAM 323:1-38. Heres my translation of the practitioners incantation, Oh Ghost (or) anything evil, from this day you are expelled from the body of so and so, son of so and so. You are driven out, sent away and banished. The god ...
  1 week ago

• New Journal of Cuneiform Studies (vol. 61; 2009)

  
  Awilum.com — Authority: 112
  Here is the table of contents for the new volume of JCS.  I can’t wait to get my hands on it–all the articles look very interesting: Daniel Potts , Bevel-Rim Bowls and Bakeries: Evidence and Explanations from Iran and the Indo-Iranian Borderlands Wolfgang Heimpel , The Location of Madga Eva von Dassow , ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fair Warning

  
  Abnormal Interests — Authority: 424
  I will not be attending the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature this year. Anyone who has delayed a decision until this announcement should now feel safe to attend next months mega affair in New Orleans. However, I will be making a presentation at the Pacific Coast regional meeting in March. ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Wild Idea About Cuneiform Literacy

  
  Abnormal Interests — Authority: 424
  and some numbers that may support it. And then again, they may not. In fact, my numbers may support something quite different or nothing at all. Like many of my more abnormal posts, this one is only a thought experiment. Please dont take it too seriously but, if you are so inclined, do think about it. In a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Marcel Sigrist On How-to-Learn Cuneiform Signs

  
  Awilum.com — Authority: 112
  Every beginning cuneiform student sets out on the seemingly impossible task of learning the hundreds of signs that make up the syllabaries.  There are many different ways in which people try to do this but lately I came across an interview that might be of help.  In the newsletter, “ Damqatum ,” Father Marcel ...
  4 weeks ago

• Abraham vs. Idolatry

  
  Kevin Stilley Dot Com — Authority: 145
  What was Abram’s religious understanding prior to hearing and responding to the call of YHWH?  The moon God Sin and his daughter Inanna were the patron deities of Ur and the names given to the Abram’s family members seem to reflect homage to this Akkadian/Sumerian pantheon.  Perhaps this is the reason God ...
  5 weeks ago

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