The Erra Myth as the Past and Post-Catastrophe
Jan 4, 2011 18:28:50 GMT -5
Post by Meslamtaea on Jan 4, 2011 18:28:50 GMT -5
The Erra Myth as the Past and Post Catastrophe:
An Interpretation in regard to Narrative and the Political Ideology of Nabu-apla-idina
Hey folks!
So this is the final paper I wrote for the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East seminar I took this semester. It's a 28 page paper outlining my argument for the dating of the Babylonian Epic of Erra, and my own interpretation of Erra's ideological utility to the reign of Nabu-apla-idina. It also explores the poem's relation to conception of the cosmos evident in Babylonian mythology.
It was meant for an anthropology course, and my professor had given me the go-ahead to write this up as an explanation of my personal research over the last year after I had explained the outline of my theory. I received a high grade for the paper, although I think he was a little disappointed it wasn't anthropologically oriented enough, but from the opposite angle, I'd love the thoughts of some of this board's budding assyriologists. I hope to edit this over the next year in order to publish it in some form or another, because to my knowledge the conclusion I arrived at has not been proposed by any researchers of the Epic. Although I am of course hindered by being as yet illiterate in Akkadian.
Enjoy! docs.google.com/document/d/1Ccw_gOI_trXLLgqEdtsvgiZrfRasS_NLP-9JhfPqf8s/edit?hl=en&authkey=CJ6Fi7II#
An Interpretation in regard to Narrative and the Political Ideology of Nabu-apla-idina
Hey folks!
So this is the final paper I wrote for the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East seminar I took this semester. It's a 28 page paper outlining my argument for the dating of the Babylonian Epic of Erra, and my own interpretation of Erra's ideological utility to the reign of Nabu-apla-idina. It also explores the poem's relation to conception of the cosmos evident in Babylonian mythology.
It was meant for an anthropology course, and my professor had given me the go-ahead to write this up as an explanation of my personal research over the last year after I had explained the outline of my theory. I received a high grade for the paper, although I think he was a little disappointed it wasn't anthropologically oriented enough, but from the opposite angle, I'd love the thoughts of some of this board's budding assyriologists. I hope to edit this over the next year in order to publish it in some form or another, because to my knowledge the conclusion I arrived at has not been proposed by any researchers of the Epic. Although I am of course hindered by being as yet illiterate in Akkadian.
Enjoy! docs.google.com/document/d/1Ccw_gOI_trXLLgqEdtsvgiZrfRasS_NLP-9JhfPqf8s/edit?hl=en&authkey=CJ6Fi7II#
Very pleased to see another paper up on this new sub-section of enenuru. Your sustained focus on the Epic of Erra is a great example of what I like about the people around here - that odd sort of unpractical obsession which ends up producing interesting things hm. 
