Christopher Metcalf
Biographic Data
| ID | 3662453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Metcalf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Metcalf |
| SIGNATURE | METCALF C |
| AFFILIATIONS | New College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Temples of Sud
TCL 15, 1 (AO 3024) is the only known manuscript of a Sumerian lament on the temples of Sud, the city-goddess of Šuruppak. Despite its excellent state of preservation, the text has received almost no attention since the (long outdated) edition of Witzel (1935). This article makes a fresh attempt to interpret the text, in light of recently discovered sources on the cults of Sud in the early Old Babylonian period
Three Myths of Kingship in Early Greece and the Ancient near East
The New Akkadian Solar Hymn and Prayer from Ortaköy/ Šapinuwa (Daam 2.6)
This article offers a detailed interpretation of the fragmentary Akkadian solar hymn and prayer from modern Ortaköy/ancient Šapinuwa recently published by D. Schwemer and A. Süel (DAAM 2.6). As recognised by its editors, DAAM 2.6 is an intermediary version that links the Sumerian solar hymn ‘Utu N’ from southern Mesopotamia to the Hittite corpus of solar hymns and prayers CTH 372–374 from central Anatolia. On the basis of DAAM 2.6 and other recen…
Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology
This volume centres on one of the most important questions in the study of antiquity – the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East, from the Mycenaean to the Hellenistic periods. Focusing on the stories that the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean told about the gods and their relationships with humankind, the individual treatments draw together specialists from both fields, creating for the first time a truly interdisciplinary synt…
Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and near Eastern Mythology
This volume centres on one of the most important questions in the study of antiquity - the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East, from the Mycenaean to the Hellenistic periods. Focusing on the stories that the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean told about the gods and their relationships with humankind, the individual treatments draw together specialists from both fields, creating for the first time a truly interdisciplinary synt…
The Song of Innana and Išme-Dagan
This article offers a first edition of BM 23820+23831, a manuscript of a previously unknown Old Babylonian Sumerian poem on the relationship between the goddess Innana and king Išme-Dagan of Isin. The king is initially depicted as a humiliated supplicant who suffers under Innana’s wrath, until the intervention of his personal god restores Innana’s favour. A mythological catalogue lists other individuals and places who offended the goddess and wer…
The gods rich in praise
This title contributes to the current academic debate on the relationship between early Greek poetry and the ancient Near East, especially Mesopotamia. It is the first extensive study to be based on a detailed analysis of the ancient texts, consisting in this case of a selection of religious poems mainly in Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, and Greek.
Conclusion
The Conclusion states the main finding of the book: early Greek religious poetry as a whole was probably not indebted to ancient Near Eastern models, but influence may nevertheless be perceived in certain closely defined instances. The Conclusion further suggests that the methods applied by past scholarship, in particular the compilation of disparate and isolated parallels, has been shown to be misleading and inappropriate (Chapters 5 and 6). Ins…
Old Babylonian Religious Poetry in Anatolia
In a recently published Old Babylonian Sumerian solar hymn, a diseased supplicant inquires into the nature of a past but unknown religious offence with which he has angered his personal god. The present article contains an interpretation of this passage and a discussion of its various Hittite versions, which range from an almost literal translation (in the Prayer of Kantuzili) to renderings that were strongly adapted to Hittite customs (in the pr…
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The gods rich in praise
This title contributes to the current academic debate on the relationship between early Greek poetry and the ancient Near East, especially Mesopotamia. It is the first extensive study to be based on a detailed analysis of the ancient texts, consisting in this case of a selection of religious poems mainly in Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, and Greek.
Conclusion
The Conclusion states the main finding of the book: early Greek religious poetry as a whole was probably not indebted to ancient Near Eastern models, but influence may nevertheless be perceived in certain closely defined instances. The Conclusion further suggests that the methods applied by past scholarship, in particular the compilation of disparate and isolated parallels, has been shown to be misleading and inappropriate (Chapters 5 and 6). Ins…
Old Babylonian Religious Poetry in Anatolia
In a recently published Old Babylonian Sumerian solar hymn, a diseased supplicant inquires into the nature of a past but unknown religious offence with which he has angered his personal god. The present article contains an interpretation of this passage and a discussion of its various Hittite versions, which range from an almost literal translation (in the Prayer of Kantuzili) to renderings that were strongly adapted to Hittite customs (in the pr…
The Song of Innana and Išme-Dagan
This article offers a first edition of BM 23820+23831, a manuscript of a previously unknown Old Babylonian Sumerian poem on the relationship between the goddess Innana and king Išme-Dagan of Isin. The king is initially depicted as a humiliated supplicant who suffers under Innana’s wrath, until the intervention of his personal god restores Innana’s favour. A mythological catalogue lists other individuals and places who offended the goddess and wer…
Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology
This volume centres on one of the most important questions in the study of antiquity – the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East, from the Mycenaean to the Hellenistic periods. Focusing on the stories that the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean told about the gods and their relationships with humankind, the individual treatments draw together specialists from both fields, creating for the first time a truly interdisciplinary synt…
Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and near Eastern Mythology
This volume centres on one of the most important questions in the study of antiquity - the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East, from the Mycenaean to the Hellenistic periods. Focusing on the stories that the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean told about the gods and their relationships with humankind, the individual treatments draw together specialists from both fields, creating for the first time a truly interdisciplinary synt…
The New Akkadian Solar Hymn and Prayer from Ortaköy/ Šapinuwa (Daam 2.6)
This article offers a detailed interpretation of the fragmentary Akkadian solar hymn and prayer from modern Ortaköy/ancient Šapinuwa recently published by D. Schwemer and A. Süel (DAAM 2.6). As recognised by its editors, DAAM 2.6 is an intermediary version that links the Sumerian solar hymn ‘Utu N’ from southern Mesopotamia to the Hittite corpus of solar hymns and prayers CTH 372–374 from central Anatolia. On the basis of DAAM 2.6 and other recen…
Three Myths of Kingship in Early Greece and the Ancient near East
The Temples of Sud
TCL 15, 1 (AO 3024) is the only known manuscript of a Sumerian lament on the temples of Sud, the city-goddess of Šuruppak. Despite its excellent state of preservation, the text has received almost no attention since the (long outdated) edition of Witzel (1935). This article makes a fresh attempt to interpret the text, in light of recently discovered sources on the cults of Sud in the early Old Babylonian period
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