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Mesopotamian Literature

Annotated bibliography

Chronological order

November 2024

    1305    1943    1946    1957    1960    1964    1966    1968    1970    1972    1973    1974    1976    1977    1978    1979    1980    1981    1982    1983    1985    1986    1987    1988    1990    1991    1992    1993    1994    1995    1996    1997    1998    2000    2001    2002    2003    2004    2005    2006    2007    2008    2009    2010    2011    2012    2013    2014    2015    2016    2017    2018    2023    2024

Year Author Title
Enheduana Enheduana
1305 ca. Alighieri, Dante De vulgari eloquentia
1943 Jacobsen, Thorkild “Primitive Democracy in Ancient Mesopotamia”
1946 Jacobsen, Thorkild, Henri Frankfort, H. A. Frankfort, John A. Wilson, and William A. Irwin The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East
1957 Contini, Gianfranco “Dante come personaggio-poeta della «Commedia»“
1960 Lambert, Wilfred G. Babylonian Wisdom Literature
1964 Oppenheim, A. Leo Ancient Mesopotamia. Portrait of a Dead Civilization
1966 Jakobson, Roman “Grammatical Parallelism and Its Russian Facet”
1966 Lambert, Wilfred G. “Ancestors, Authors and Canonicity”
1968 Gordon, Edmund I. Sumerian Proverbs. Glimpses of Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
1968 Jacobsen, Thorkild “The Battle between Marduk and Tiamat”
1970 Gray, John “The Book of Job in the Context of Near Eastern Literature”
19702 Sokolowski, Robert The Formation Husserl’s Concept of Vonstitution
1972 Buccellati, Giorgio “Gilgamesh in chiave sapienziale; l’umiltà dell’anti-eroe”
1972 Buccellati, Giorgio “On the Use of the Akkadian Infinitive after ša or Construct State”
1972 Buccellati, Giorgio “Il Dialogo del Pessimismo: la scienza degli opposti come ideale sapienziale”
1972 Buccellati, Giorgio “Tre saggi sulla sapienza mesopotamica – III. La teodicea: condanna dell’abulia politica”
1973 Buccellati, Giorgio “Adapa, Genesis, and the Notion of Faith”
1974 Alster, Bendt “On the Interpretation of the Sumerian Myth ‘Inanna and Enki’“”
1976 Jacobsen, Thorkild The Treasures of Darkness. A History of Mesopotamian Religion
1977 Fox, James J. “Roman Jakobson and the Comparative Study of Paralellism”
1978 Reiner, Erica “Die akkadische Literatur”
1979 Berlin, Adele Enmerkar and Esuhkešdanna. A Sumerian Narrative Poem
1980 Römer, Willem H. Ph. Das sumerische Kursepos «Bilgameš und Akka» Versuch einer Neubearbeitung
1981 Buccellati, Giorgio “Principles of Stylistic Analysis”
1981 Buccellati, Giorgio “Wisdom and Not: The Case of Mesopotamia”
1981 Cooper, Jerrold S. “Gilgamesh and Agga: A Review Article”
1981 Heimpel, Wolfgang “A note on ‘Gilgamesh and Agga’“
1981 Westermann, Claus The Structure of the Book of Job. A Form-Critical Analysis
1982 Buccellati, Giorgio “The Descent of Inanna as a Ritual Journey to Kutha”
1982 Tigay, Jeffrey H. The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic
1983 Foster, Benjamin R. “Self-reference of an Akkadian Poet”
1983 Gadotti, Alhena “Gilgameš, Gudam, and the Singer in Sumerian Literature”
1983 Galter, H. “Die Wörter für «Weisheit» im Akkadischen”
1983 Machinist, Peter “Rest and Violence in the Poem of Erra”
1983 Oshima, Takayoshi “How many tablets did Ludlul Bel Nemeqi consist of?”
1985 Reiner, Erica Your Thwarts in pieces, Your Mooring Rope Cut. Poetry from Babylonia and Assyria
1986 Hecker, Karl and Walter Sommerfeld Keilschriftliche Literaturen. Ausgewählte Vorträge der XXXII. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale
1986 Vanstiphout, Herman “Some Thoughts on Genre in Mesopotamian Literature”
1987 Denning Bolle, Sara “Wisdom and Dialogue in the Ancient Near East”
1987 Jacobsen, Thorkild The Harps that Once … Sumerian Poetry in Translation
19882 Fox, James J. To Speak in Pairs. Essays on the Ritual Languages of Estern Indonesia
1990 Buccellati, Giorgio “On Poetry – Theirs and Ours”
1991 Assman, A. and J. Weisheit. Archäologie der literarischen Kommunikation
1992 Denning Bolle, Sara Wisdom in Akkadian Literature. Expression, Instruction, Dialogue
1993 Frayne, Douglas R. The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia. Early Periods 2: Sargonic and Gutian Periods: 2334-2113 BC
1994 Leick, Gwendolyn Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature
1995 Lambert, Wilfred G. “A Note on the Three Ox-Drivers from Adab”
1995 Malato, Enrico “Dante”
1996 Buccellati, Giorgio A Structural Grammar of Babylonian
1996 Buccellati, Giorgio A Structural Grammar of Babylonian
1996 Foster, Benjamin R. Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature
1997 Weissert, Elnathan “Creating a Political Climate. Literary Allusions to Enuma Eliš in Sennacherib’s Account of the Battle of Halul”
1998 Black, Jeremy Reading Sumerian Poetry
1998 Rosenwein, Barbara Anger’s Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages
1998 ETCSL The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
2000 George, Andrew R. The Epic of Gilgamesh. The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian
2001 Foster, Benjamin R. The Epic of Gilgamesh
2001 Izre’el, Shlomo Adapa and the South Wind. Language Has the Power of Life and Death
2002 Glassner, J.-J. “Etemenanki, armature du cosmos”
2002- Urkesh/Tell Mozan Urkesh/Tell Mozan
2003 Albertz, Rainer Geschichte und Theologie. Studien zur Exegese des Alten Testaments und zur Religionsgeschichte Israels
2003 Buccellati, Giorgio “Il cimento dell’estro e della ragione: la dimensione scribale della cosiddetta ‘Teodicea babilonese’“
2003 George, Andrew R. The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic. Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts, 2 Vols.
2003 Vanstiphout, Herman Epics of Sumerian Kings. The Matter of Aratta
2003 Veldhuis, Niek “Mesopotamian Canons”
2003 Verderame, Lorenzo Letterature dell’antica Mesopotamia
2004 Black, Jeremy, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson and Gá Zólyomi The Literature of Ancient Sumer
2004 Paximadi, Giorgio E io dimorerò in mezzo a loro. Composizione e interpretazione di Es. 25–31
2005 Alster, Bendt Wisdom of Ancient Sumer
2005 Ríkhardsdóttir, Sif “Bound by Culture: A Comparative Study of the Old French and Old Norse Versions of La Chanson de Roland“
20053 Foster, Benjamin R. Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature
2006 Kelly-Buccellati, Marilyn “Gilgamesh at Urkesh? Literary motifs and iconographic identifications”
2006 Rollinger, Robert “Gilgamesch als ‘Sportler’, oder: pukku und mikkû als Sportgeräte des Helden von Uruk”
2006 Rosenwein, Barbara Emotional Communities in the Middle Ages
2006 Rosenwein, Barbara Generations of Feeling. A History of Emotions
20061 Michalowski, Piotre and Niek Veldhuis Approaches to Sumerian Literature. Studies in Honour of Stip (H.L.J. Vanstiphout)
2007 Foster, Benjamin R. Akkadian Literature of the Late Period
2007 Jakobson, Roman Poesie der Grammatik und Grammatik der Poesie: sämtliche Gedichtanalysen
2008 Giovannetti, Paolo Dalla poesia in prosa al rap. Tradizioni e canoni metrici nella poesia italiana contemporanea
2009 Röllig, Wolfgang Das Gilgamesch-Epos. Übersetzt, kommentiert und herausgegebn von W. Röllig
2010 Annus, Amar and Alan Lenzi Ludlul bēl nēmeqi. The Standard Babylonian Poem of the Righteous Sufferer
2011 Griffith, R. Drew and Robert B. Marks “A Fool by Any Other Name: Greek ‘αλαζων and Akkadian aluzinnu“
2011 Lenzi, Alan Reading Akkadian Prayers and Hymns. An Introduction
2011 Rollinger, Robert “Sport und Spiel”
2011 Scotti Muth, Nicoletta “Scoprire Israele (I). Lo sfondo da cui emerge la storia”
2011 Glassner, Jean-Jacques – YouTube L’épopée de Gilgamesh avec Jean-Jacques Glassner
2012 Buccellati, Giorgio «Quando in alto i cieli…» La spiritualità biblica a confronto con quella biblica
2012 Lenzi, Alan “The Curious Case of Failed Revelation in Ludlul bēl nēmeqi: A New Suggestion for the Poem’s Scholarly Purpose”
2012 Wilcke, Claus The Sumerian Poem Enmerkar and En-suhkeš-ana: Epic, Play, or?: Stage Craft at the Turn from the Third to the Second Millennium B.C. With a Score-edition and a Translations of the Text
2013 Buccellati, Giorgio Alle origini della politica
2013 George, Andrew R. “The poem of Erra and Ishum: A Babylonian Poet’s View of War”
2013 Lambert, Wilfred G. Babylonian Creation Myths
2013 Lambert, Wilfred G. Babylonian Creation Myths
2013 Lambert, Wilfred G. “Die Babylonische Theodizee”
2013 Oshima, Takayoshi The Babylonian Theodicy
2013 Römer, Thomas – YouTube Thomas Römer : L’épopée de Gilgamesh lue comme une réflexion sur la condition humaine
2014 Ferrante, Gennaro “Il lauro di Mopso e l’edera di Aminta. Petrarca e Dante nel Boccaccio bucolico”
2014 Oshima, Takayoshi “«Let Us Sleep!» The Motif of Disturbing Resting Deities in Cuneiform Texts”
2014 Oshima, Takayoshi M. Babylonian Poems of Pious Sufferers: Ludlul bēl nēmeqi and the Babylonian Theodicy
2014 Gilgamesh – YouTube L’Épopée de Gilgamesh : Le plus vieux récit du monde
2015 Abusch, Tzvi Male and Female in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Encounters, Literary History, and Interpretation
2015 Cohen, Yoram “The Problem of Theodicy – The Mesopotamian Perspective”
2015 Delnero, Paul & Jacob Lauinger Texts and Contexts. The Circulation and Transmission of Cuneiform Texts in Social Space
2015 Lenzi, Alan “Scribal Hermeneutics and the Twelve Gates of Ludlul bēl nēmeqi“
2015 Lenzi, Alan “The Language of Akkadian Prayers in Ludlul bēl nēmeqi and its Significance within and beyond Mesopotamia”
2015 Orvieto, Paolo De Sanctis
2015 Ríkhardsdóttir, Sif “Translating Emotion: Vocalisation and Embodiment in Yvain and Ívens Aaga”
2015 Rollinger, Robert and Erik van Dongen Mesopotamia in the Ancient World. Impact, Continuities, Parallels
2016 Pirovano, Donato Poeti del Dolce Stil Novo
2017 Buccellati, Giorgio A Critique of Archaeological Reason
2017 Buccellati, Giorgio Il pensiero nell’argilla. Analisi strutturale della letteratura mesopotamica
2018 Oshima, T.M. and Kohlhass, Susanne Teaching Morality in Antiquity: Wisdom Texts, Oral Traditions, and Images
2023 Buccellati, Giorgio “When on High the Heavens…”: Mesopotamian Religion and Spirituality with Reference to the Biblical World
2023 Atra-Hasis Andrew Knight-Hill
2023 SEAL Sources of Earlt Akkadian Literature
2024 Buccellati, Giorgio “An Epistemological Perspective on the Mesopotamian Wisdom Tradition”