T.M. OSHIMA
Babylonian Prayers to Marduk [Babylonische [Babylo nische Gebete an Marduk.] Published in English. This is the rst comprehensive study of Babylonian prayers dedicated to Marduk, the god of Babylon, since J. Hehn's essay essay “Hymnen und Gebete an M arduk” (1905). (1905). Marduk Marduk was w as the god of o f the city of Babylon and was the most important god in Babylonia from the time of Hammurabi (the 18th century century BCE) onwards. onw ards. In this book, Takayoshi Oshima O shima presents presents an up-to -date catalog of all known Babylonian prayers dedicated to Marduk from dierent historical periods and oers critical editions of 31 ancient texts based on newly identied manuscripts and a collation of the previously published manuscripts. The author also discusses various aspects of Akkadian prayers to dier di erent ent deities and th e ancient belief i n the mechanism of pun ishment and redemption by Marduk.
T.M. Oshima Born
2011. XVIII, 483 pages. ORA 7
1967;; PhD in Assyriology from the Hebrew University o f Jerusalem, Israel; 1967 Israel; 2008–10 Alexander-von-Humboldt fellow at the University of Leipzig in Germany; 2010–13 researc res earch h fello w at the th e Friedrich-Schiller Univ ers ersity ity i n Jena (project of the German German Research Research Foundation (DFG); since 2015 another DFG project at the University of Leipzig.
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