Mesopotamian Chronicles (Writings from the Ancient World) (Writings from the Ancient World) (Writings from the Ancient World)

this English Translation Of Glassner’s Chroniques Mésopotamiennes (paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1993) Collects All Chronicle Literature Of Ancient Mesopotamia From The Early Second Millenium To Seleucid Times. The Volume, Which Incorporates Revisions And Additions By The Author And A Transcription Of The Cuneiform, Includes Every Example Of Sumerian, Assyrian, And Babylonian Historiographic Literature, And Magisterial Essays On The Genre And On Mesopotamian Historiography In General. paperback Edition Is Available From The Society Of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org) Frontmatter (page i) 1 Contents (page vii) 7 Series Editor's Foreword (page xi) 11 Abbreviations (page xiii) 13 Babylonian Calendar (page xvi) 16 Explanation of Signs and Conventions (page xvii) 17 Preface (page xix) 19 Part I. Mesopotamian Historiography (page 1) 21 I. The Future of the Past (page 3) 23 Part II: Analysis of the Compositions (page 35) 55 II. Definition (page 37) 57 III. Contents (page 55) 75 IV. Genesis (page 95) 115 V. Diachrony (page 101) 121 Part III: The Documents (page 115) 135 VI. The Royal Chronicles (page 117) 137 VII. Sumerian Chronography (page 156) 176 VIII. Assyrian Chronicles (page 160) 180 IX. Chronicles from the Neo-Babylonian, Persian, and Seleucid Periods (page 193) 213 X. Babylonian Chronicles of Ancient Kings (page 263) 283 XI. Putative Chronicles (page 293) 313 Bibliography (page 319) 339 Indexes (page 345) 365 Proper Names (page 345) 365 Theonyms (page 358) 378 Place Names and Names of Peoples (page 359) 379 All the chronicle literature of ancient Mesopotamia from the early second millennium to Seleucid times is collected in this English translation of Glassners Chroniques Msopotamiennes ( Les Belles Lettres, 1993). In addition to revising and supplementing the French edition, this volume provides transcriptions of the cuneiform and English translations of every example of Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian chronographic literature as well as seminal essays on the genre and on Mesopotamian historiography in general.