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Enrique Jiménez

Published On

2023-12-19

Page Range

pp. 1–22

Language

  • English

Print Length

22 pages

Quotations for Lexical Lists and Other Texts in Later Mesopotamian Commentaries

Chapter of: Synopses and Lists: Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World(pp. 1–22)
Lists represent the oldest, and most pervasive, scholarly genre in ancient Mesopotamia. Cuneiform commentaries, first attested in the first millennium BCE, can be regarded as a genre derived from lexical lists. The contribution by Enrique Jiménez studies the ways in which lexical lists are cited in commentaries, and compares them with quotations from texts other than lexical lists.

Contributors

Enrique Jiménez

(author)
Chair in Ancient Near Eastern Literatures at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0093-528X

Enrique Jiménez holds a chair in Ancient Near Eastern Literatures at LMU since 2018 and is the winner of a 2017 Sofja Kovalevskaja Award. He specializes in the literature and scholarly texts from ancient Mesopotamia, in particular from the first millennium BCE. He is PI of the Electronic Babylonian Literature project (http://www.ebl.lmu.de/).