Legends of the Kings of Akkade
The Texts
Joan Goodnick Westenholz
The most impressive legacy of the Dynasty of Akkade (ca. 2310-2160 B.C.E.) was the widespread, popular legends of its kings. Dr. Westenholz offers an annotated edition of all the known legends of the Akkadian kings, with transliteration, translation, and commentary. Of particular interest to biblical scholars is the inclusion of “The Birth Legend of Sargon,” which is often compared to Moses in Exodus.
- Description
- Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Concordance of Museum Numbers
Concordance of Publication Numbers
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction
Definition of the Corpus
Recovery of the Texts and the History of Scholarship
Terminology
Poetic Discourse, Orthography, and Grammar
Part A: Sargon
Chapter 2. The Sargon ‘Autobiographies’
Text 1. Old Babylonian Fragment: ‘I, Sargon’
Text 2. ‘The Wisdom of Sargon’: The ‘Birth Legend’ of Sargon
Chapter 3. Sargon’s Rise to Power: Sargon, Ur-Zababa, and Lugalzagesi
Text 5. Sumerian-Akkadian Bilingual Exercise Text
Chapter 4. Res Gestae Sargonis
Text 6. ‘Sargon, the Conquering Hero’
Text 7. ‘Sargon in Foreign Lands’
Fragments
Text 8. ‘Sargon, the Lion’
Text 9. ‘King of Battle’
Text 9B. Amarna Recension
Text 9C. Amarna Fragment
Text 9D. Assur Fragment
Text 9E. Nineveh Recension
Chapter 5. The Sargon Letters
Text 10. Nippur Letter
Text 11. Ur Letter
Part B: Naram-Sin
Chapter 6. Naram-Sin and the Lord of Apisal
Text 12. ‘Naram-Sin and the Lord of Apisal’
Chapter 7. Erra and Naram-Sin
Text 13. ‘Erra and Naram-Sin’
Chapter 8. Elegy on the Death of Naram-Sin
Text 14. ‘Elegy on the Death of Naram-Sin’
Chapter 9. The Great Revolt against Naram-Sin
Text 15. The Old Akkadian Exercise
Text 16. The Old Babylonian Excerpt Versions
Text 16A. Mari Version
Text 16B. Geneva Version
Text 17. ‘Gula-AN and the Seventeen Kings against Naram-Sin’
Text 19. ‘The Tenth Battle’
Chapter 10. ‘Naram-Sin and the Enemy Hordes’: The ‘Cuthean Legend’ of Naram-Sin
Text 20. The Old Babylonian Edition
Text 21. The Middle Babylonian Recension
Text 22. The Standard Babylonian Recension
Introduction
Composite Text and Translation
Manuscripts and Score
Indexes
Index of Personal Names
Index of Divine Names
Index of Geographical and Topographical Names
Index of Literary Texts
Index of Words Discussed
General Index
Plates
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