2008W.SEM241

Robert K. Englund, Winter 2008: Semitics 241

NB: Instructor is NEH panelist in London in week of 21 January.

SEM 241: Advanced Akkadian
(695-246-200) The Babylonian Job (ludlul bel nemeqi, a 500-line Akkadian composition in four tablets, with witness texts from Assur, Niniveh, Nimrud and Sippar). Emphasis on grammar and cuneiform script.
Prerequisite: one year of Akkadian or approval of the instructor.

Instruction hours:
We 3:00-6:00 PM
Rm Humanities 367 Office hours: We 1-3 PM, Humanities 396,
or appointment 310 825 8506 or englund@ucla.edu;
links to related websites.

Signlists:
Rene Labat, Manuel d'epigraphie akkadienne (Paris 1971)
Rykle Borger, Assyrisch-Babylonische Zeichenliste (=AOAT 33/33A; Neukirchen-Vluyn 1981)
Rykle Borger, Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon (=AOAT 305; Muenster 2004)

Literature: Editions:
Wilfried Lambert and Oliver Gurney, “The Sultantepe Tablets III. The Poem of the Righteous Sufferer,” AnOr 4 (1954) 65-99
Wilfried Lambert, Babylonian Wisdom Literature (Oxford 1960) 21-62
David Wiseman, AnSt 30 (1980) 104-107
Andrew George and Farouk al-Rawi, Iraq 60 (1998) 187-196 (Sippar text)
Earl Leichty, Fs. Finkelstein (1977) 143-146

Translations:
Wolfram von Soden, TUAT 3/1, 110-135
Benjamin Foster, Before the Muses I (Bethesda 1993) 308-325 (with Literatur)
cp. R. Albertson, in W. Hallo et al., eds., Scripture in Context II (Winona Lake1983) 213-230

Commentary:
Rainer Albertz, “Ludlul bel nemeqi - eine Lehrdichtung zur Ausbreitung und Vertiefung der persönlichen Mardukfrömmigkeit,” AOAT 220 (1988) 25-53
Wilfried Lambert, “A Further Attempt at the Babylonian ‘Man and his God’,” in F. Rochberg-Halton, ed., Language, Literature and History: Philological and Historical Studies Presented to Erica Reiner (=AOS 67; New Haven 1987) 187-202
William Moran, “Notes on the Hymn to Marduk in ludlul be nemeqi,” JAOS 103 (1983) 255-260
Marten Stol, “The Reversibility of Human Fate in Ludlul II,” Fs. Limet (1996) 179-183
Wolfram von Soden, “Die Fragen nach der Gerechtigkeit Gottes im Alten Orient,” MDOG 69 (1965) 41-59

Download text witnesses and text structure

Grading:
Two hourly exams: mid-term 30%, final 40%.

Class presentation of topic of grammar or writing; 30%.

SEM 241: Advanced Akkadian (695-246-200)	The Babylonian Job (ludlul bel nemeqi, a 500-line Akkadian composition in four tablets, with witness texts from Assur, Niniveh, Nimrud and Sippar). Emphasis on grammar and cuneiform script. Prerequisite: one year of Akkadian or approval of the instructor.
Instruction hours: We 3:00-6:00 PM Rm Humanities 367	Office hours: We 1-3 PM, Humanities 396, or appointment 310 825 8506 or englund@ucla.edu; links to related websites.
Signlists:	Rene Labat, Manuel d'epigraphie akkadienne (Paris 1971) Rykle Borger, Assyrisch-Babylonische Zeichenliste (=AOAT 33/33A; Neukirchen-Vluyn 1981) Rykle Borger, Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon (=AOAT 305; Muenster 2004)
Literature:	Editions: Wilfried Lambert and Oliver Gurney, “The Sultantepe Tablets III. The Poem of the Righteous Sufferer,” AnOr 4 (1954) 65-99 Wilfried Lambert, Babylonian Wisdom Literature (Oxford 1960) 21-62 David Wiseman, AnSt 30 (1980) 104-107 Andrew George and Farouk al-Rawi, Iraq 60 (1998) 187-196 (Sippar text) Earl Leichty, Fs. Finkelstein (1977) 143-146 Translations: Wolfram von Soden, TUAT 3/1, 110-135 Benjamin Foster, Before the Muses I (Bethesda 1993) 308-325 (with Literatur) cp. R. Albertson, in W. Hallo et al., eds., Scripture in Context II (Winona Lake1983) 213-230 Commentary: Rainer Albertz, “Ludlul bel nemeqi - eine Lehrdichtung zur Ausbreitung und Vertiefung der persönlichen Mardukfrömmigkeit,” AOAT 220 (1988) 25-53 Wilfried Lambert, “A Further Attempt at the Babylonian ‘Man and his God’,” in F. Rochberg-Halton, ed., Language, Literature and History: Philological and Historical Studies Presented to Erica Reiner (=AOS 67; New Haven 1987) 187-202 William Moran, “Notes on the Hymn to Marduk in ludlul be nemeqi,” JAOS 103 (1983) 255-260 Marten Stol, “The Reversibility of Human Fate in Ludlul II,” Fs. Limet (1996) 179-183 Wolfram von Soden, “Die Fragen nach der Gerechtigkeit Gottes im Alten Orient,” MDOG 69 (1965) 41-59 Download text witnesses and text structure
Grading:	Two hourly exams: mid-term 30%, final 40%. Class presentation of topic of grammar or writing; 30%.