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- Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology
- Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts
- Chapter 1 ‘Let Those Important Primeval Deities Listen’
- Chapter 2 Siting the Gods
- Chapter 3 Politics, Cult, and Scholarship
- Chapter 4 The Scholar and the Poet
- Part II Influence
- Part III Difference
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 3 - Politics, Cult, and Scholarship
Aspects of the Transmission History of Marduk and Tiʾamat’s Battle
from Part I - Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 March 2021
- Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology
- Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts
- Chapter 1 ‘Let Those Important Primeval Deities Listen’
- Chapter 2 Siting the Gods
- Chapter 3 Politics, Cult, and Scholarship
- Chapter 4 The Scholar and the Poet
- Part II Influence
- Part III Difference
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter presents some results of the author’s long-term research on an important source for several papers in this volume, the Babylonian creation-epic Enūma eliš, with a focus on its complex relationship with Babylon’s New Year festival as well as on its scholarly exegesis in Babylonian academic treatises. Both aspects, ritual and scholarly, provide important historical contextualisation for Hellenists interested in the affinities between the battle of Marduk and Tiʾamat and Greek theomachies.
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