The Akkadian Great Hymns and Prayers. A Critical Edition of the Nabû and Ištar Prayers and a Study of the Corpus PDFDocument Rozzi, Geraldina Edizioni Ca' Foscari Venezia - Venice University Press PHAIDRA University of Padua eng Akkadian • Poetry • Sumerian • Wisdom • Prayers • Religion • Literature • Language • Hymns • Rhetoric • Mesopotamia • Intertextuality application/pdf (4288591 bytes) hdl:11168/11.544532 https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/o:544532 The "Great Hymns and Prayers" are a group of Akkadian literary compositions renowned for their sophisticated style and language. This book presents updated critical editions of the "Great Prayer to Nabû" and the "Great Prayer to Ištar", incorporating new interpretations and newly discovered fragments for more accurate reconstructions. In addition to philological analysis, the book explores intertextual relationships with other literary and non-literary texts and provides an in-depth study of the poetics of the corpus. Collana: Antichistica 42 Sottocollana: Studi orientali 15 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode http://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/o:432584 Rozzi, Geraldina, The Akkadian Great Hymns and Prayers. Venezia, Edizioni Ca' Foscari Venezia - Venice University Press, 2024-12-18, 368 p. 2024