Akkadian Commentaries from Ancient Mesopotamia and Their Relation to Early Hebrew Exegesis.

Abstract Commentaries from ancient Mesopotamia, written in cuneiform script and in the Akkadian language, are known from the eighth century B.C.E. up to the last centuries B.C.E. The article investigates the authority of the texts about which commentaries are known, often considered canonical and di...

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Published in:	Dead Sea Discoveries Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 267 - 313
Main Author:	Gabbay, Uri
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers Nov2012
Subjects:	Biblical commentaries Akkadian language Assyro-Babylonian literature Hermeneutics in Judaism Religion Mesopotamia
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