Uri Gabbay
Biographic Data
| ID | 700470 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uri Gabbay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uri |
| FAMILY NAME | Gabbay |
| SIGNATURE | GABBAY U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3146-3801 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Old Babylonian Tablet with a Collection of Sumerian Hymns
The article presents an edition of a previously unpublished Old Babylonian tablet in the collection of the Kramer Institute of Assyriology of Bar Ilan University. The tablet contains three Sumerian compositions: Ninisina’s Journey to Nippur (Ninisina C), a hymn to Damu, and a hymn to An with wishes for Šu-ilišu (Šu-ilišu B). Besides the philological edition, the article deals with formal features on the tablet such as subscripts, as well as with …
The Late Babylonian Series of ‘Ancient Sumerian’
In this article, we shed new light on the series with the emic title ‘Ancient Sumerian’, previously known from the Late Babylonian ritual texts for the New Year Festival. We first establish a new reading of the title, the key to which lies in a Late Babylonian pseudepigraphic letter. Following that, we present the contents of the series, including the edition of the hitherto unpublished tablet BM 32544+ that according to its colophon belongs to t…
Between the Real and Ideal
This article investigates how ritual transforms the ordinary into something extraordinary. It is the capacity of ritual to differentiate, and to be differentiated from other activities, that provides a group with a framework for seeing what they are doing as being meaningfully different than ordinary. Without the proper focusing lens – ritualization – special nonordinary acts and objects can look very mundane indeed. Furthermore, there is often a…
“In Heaven, at Evening”
The article presents an edition of the Old Babylonian Sumerian Eršema “In heaven, at evening” according to the tablet MS 3406, published here for the first time, and parallels. The Eršema describes Inana lamenting her losses and the capture of her spouse Dumuzi
The Ritual for Opening a Canal From Nineveh
The article presents a philological edition of K.2727+K.6213, a fragmentary tablet from Nineveh that deals with a ritual for opening a canal. The paper discusses other references to this ritual, i.e. parallel sources for this type of ritual, the materials used, the gods addressed, and the specialists who performed the ritual actions
Becoming Marduk
The article deals with a commentary on the Akkadian composition Marduk’s Address to the Demons from the city of Assur. The first part of the article discusses the unique religious view found in Marduk’s Address and its commentary, in which the āšipu priest is identified with the god Marduk. The second part presents a new philological edition of the commentary
An Early Old Babylonian Bilingual Version of the Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur
L’article contient une discussion et une édition d’une tablette contenant une partie du troisième Kirugu de la Lamentation sumérienne sur la destruction d’Ur. La tablette contient une traduction akkadienne, et doit probablement être datée du début de la période paléo-babylonienne
Commentaries from ancient mesopotamia
Akkadian commentaries from ancient Mesopotamia, written on cuneiform tablets dating to the first millennium BCE, deal with various texts and exhibit a variety of hermeneutical techniques and concerns. These commentaries are connected to the process of canonization, and also provide a glimpse into the scholarly environment in which they were produced
“The Shepherd, What Has He Done?”
The article publishes an Old Babylonian syllabically written tablet of the Eršema su8-ba-de3 ta an- ak , “The shepherd, what has he done?” with duplicates from the first millennium BCE stemming from Nineveh. The composition laments the disappearance of Dumuzi
Commentary and Authority in Mesopotamia and Qumran, written by Bronson Brown-deVost
The Mesopotamian God Dugab-šugigi
The article deals with the Mesopotamian god Dugab-šugigi, listing his attestations in cuneiform literature (including the fragment AO 2540 published in the article), and analyzing his theological role as an intermediate god stationed in gates
A New Manuscript of Ninĝišzida’s Journey to the Netherworld
The article presents an edition of a new manuscript of the Old Babylonian Sumerian myth Ninĝišzida’s Journey to the Netherworld from the Louvre museum. The article deals with the complex literary transmission of this composition, known in different versions with much variation. The myth, lamentful in tone, and including Emesal vocabulary and litanies, is compared to the corpus of Emesal prayers, especially the laments over Damu. The myth is also …
A Literary Topos of Abundance
This study analyses a literary topos concerning the abundance of natural phenomena, including fresh water, reed beds and fish. The standardised sequence listing such abundant natural features occurs in two previously unpublished tablets containing Emesal prayers concerning the god Enki, published in this article. The Old Babylonian tablet, of unknown provenance, attests to a unique composition. The tablet from Late Babylonian Ur, which is partial…
A Hymn of Ayadaragalama, King of the First Sealand Dynasty, to the Gods of Nippur
The article presents a philological edition of a tablet stemming from the Sealand dynasty that ruled southern Babylonia during the late Old Babylonian and the early Kassite period. It contains a bilingual Sumero-Akkadian hymn to the gods of Nippur for the sake of the Sealand king Ayadaragalama. The article examines the hymn in its literary context, especially in relation to earlier Old Babylonian royal hymns, and in its historical context, focusi…
Drums, Hearts, Bulls, and Dead Gods
The article deals with the theology of the lilis kettledrum, used to accompany prayers in ancient Mesopotamian temple cult. The article analyzes the ritual in which the head of the kettledrum was covered with the hide of a bull and the ancient commentary on this ritual, showing that the ancient understanding of this ritual was that it reflected the primordial battle between the gods Enlil and Enmešara over the rule of the universe. The article co…
Text and Performance
The following examines the Akkadian scribal annotation
Veiled, she circles the city”
Specification as a Hermeneutical Technique in Babylonian and Assyrian Commentaries
This article discusses the hermeneutical feature of specification in Akkadian commentaries, i.e., narrowing the commented text to specific circumstances, not necessarily implied by its literal meaning. The article explores the reasons for this phenomenon, often triggered by ambiguity, textual contradiction, or problems in the verisimilitude of the reality referred to by the commented text. The article also examines the phenomenon of specification…
Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon
This volume presents a group of articles that deal with connections between ancient Babylonian, Iranian and Jewish communities in Mesopotamia under Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid, and Sasanian rule. The studies, written by leading scholars in the fields of Assyriology, Iranian studies and Jewish studies, examine various modes of cultural connections between these societies, such as historical, social, legal, and exegetical intersections. The various …
A Balaĝ to Enlil from the First Sealand Dynasty
The tablet published in this article stems from the Sealand dynasty that ruled southern Babylonia between the end of the first dynasty of Babylon and the Kassite period. The tablet contains an abbreviated version of the Balaĝ am-e bára-an-na-ra . The Sealand text enables an examination of the literary history of this Balaĝ from the Old Babylonian period to the first millennium BCE
Immigrants’ Mortality Patterns in the Short- and Long-Term Point Toward Origin-Related Diversities
A Fragment of a Sumerian Lament
The text of úru àm-ma-ir-ra-bi, the longest extant Sumerian balaĝ -lament, is in the process of recovery and reconstruction from Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform tablets. This article presents a previously unpublished Babylonian tablet fragment that holds part of the composition's hitherto unknown eleventh tablet. The fragment also contains part of the catchline to the twelfth tablet, also unidentified until now, and is thus an important source …
Two Summary Tablets of Bala Compositions with Performative Indications from Late-Babylonian Ur
Article Two Summary Tablets of Bala Compositions with Performative Indications from Late-Babylonian Ur was published on December 1, 2011 in the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (volume 101, issue 2)
Lamentful Proverbs or Proverbial Laments? Intertextual Connections Between Sumerian Proverbs and Emesal Laments
A Neo-Babylonian Catalogue of Bala Tablets in the Oriental Institute of Chicago
Die im folgenden publizierte Tafel A 3513 enthält einen neubabylonischen Katalog mit Stichzeilen von Bala-Tafeln. Ungefähr die Hälfte der Stichzeilen konnte identifiziert werden. Sie gehören hauptsächlich zu den Balas a m - e b á r a a n - n a - r a und é t ù r g i n7 n i i n - n a - à m . Mit Hilfe des Kataloges konnten einige Tafeln mit den gleichen Stichzeilen identifiziert werden. Folglich leistet dieser Katalog einen Beitrag zur Diskussion ü…
Drums, Hearts, Bulls, and Dead Gods
The article deals with the theology of the lilis kettledrum, used to accompany prayers in ancient Mesopotamian temple cult. The article analyzes the ritual in which the head of the kettledrum was covered with the hide of a bull and the ancient commentary on this ritual, showing that the ancient understanding of this ritual was that it reflected the primordial battle between the gods Enlil and Enmešara over the rule of the universe. The article co…
Literatures In Contact
Dance in Textual Sources from Ancient Mesopotamia
Becoming Marduk
The article deals with a commentary on the Akkadian composition Marduk’s Address to the Demons from the city of Assur. The first part of the article discusses the unique religious view found in Marduk’s Address and its commentary, in which the āšipu priest is identified with the god Marduk. The second part presents a new philological edition of the commentary
Dance in Textual Sources from Ancient Mesopotamia
Literatures In Contact
A Neo-Babylonian Catalogue of Bala Tablets in the Oriental Institute of Chicago
Die im folgenden publizierte Tafel A 3513 enthält einen neubabylonischen Katalog mit Stichzeilen von Bala-Tafeln. Ungefähr die Hälfte der Stichzeilen konnte identifiziert werden. Sie gehören hauptsächlich zu den Balas a m - e b á r a a n - n a - r a und é t ù r g i n7 n i i n - n a - à m . Mit Hilfe des Kataloges konnten einige Tafeln mit den gleichen Stichzeilen identifiziert werden. Folglich leistet dieser Katalog einen Beitrag zur Diskussion ü…
A Fragment of a Sumerian Lament
The text of úru àm-ma-ir-ra-bi, the longest extant Sumerian balaĝ -lament, is in the process of recovery and reconstruction from Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform tablets. This article presents a previously unpublished Babylonian tablet fragment that holds part of the composition's hitherto unknown eleventh tablet. The fragment also contains part of the catchline to the twelfth tablet, also unidentified until now, and is thus an important source …
Two Summary Tablets of Bala Compositions with Performative Indications from Late-Babylonian Ur
Article Two Summary Tablets of Bala Compositions with Performative Indications from Late-Babylonian Ur was published on December 1, 2011 in the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (volume 101, issue 2)
Lamentful Proverbs or Proverbial Laments? Intertextual Connections Between Sumerian Proverbs and Emesal Laments
Immigrants’ Mortality Patterns in the Short- and Long-Term Point Toward Origin-Related Diversities
Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon
This volume presents a group of articles that deal with connections between ancient Babylonian, Iranian and Jewish communities in Mesopotamia under Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid, and Sasanian rule. The studies, written by leading scholars in the fields of Assyriology, Iranian studies and Jewish studies, examine various modes of cultural connections between these societies, such as historical, social, legal, and exegetical intersections. The various …
A Balaĝ to Enlil from the First Sealand Dynasty
The tablet published in this article stems from the Sealand dynasty that ruled southern Babylonia between the end of the first dynasty of Babylon and the Kassite period. The tablet contains an abbreviated version of the Balaĝ am-e bára-an-na-ra . The Sealand text enables an examination of the literary history of this Balaĝ from the Old Babylonian period to the first millennium BCE
Specification as a Hermeneutical Technique in Babylonian and Assyrian Commentaries
This article discusses the hermeneutical feature of specification in Akkadian commentaries, i.e., narrowing the commented text to specific circumstances, not necessarily implied by its literal meaning. The article explores the reasons for this phenomenon, often triggered by ambiguity, textual contradiction, or problems in the verisimilitude of the reality referred to by the commented text. The article also examines the phenomenon of specification…
Text and Performance
The following examines the Akkadian scribal annotation
Veiled, she circles the city”
A Hymn of Ayadaragalama, King of the First Sealand Dynasty, to the Gods of Nippur
The article presents a philological edition of a tablet stemming from the Sealand dynasty that ruled southern Babylonia during the late Old Babylonian and the early Kassite period. It contains a bilingual Sumero-Akkadian hymn to the gods of Nippur for the sake of the Sealand king Ayadaragalama. The article examines the hymn in its literary context, especially in relation to earlier Old Babylonian royal hymns, and in its historical context, focusi…
Drums, Hearts, Bulls, and Dead Gods
The article deals with the theology of the lilis kettledrum, used to accompany prayers in ancient Mesopotamian temple cult. The article analyzes the ritual in which the head of the kettledrum was covered with the hide of a bull and the ancient commentary on this ritual, showing that the ancient understanding of this ritual was that it reflected the primordial battle between the gods Enlil and Enmešara over the rule of the universe. The article co…
Commentary and Authority in Mesopotamia and Qumran, written by Bronson Brown-deVost
The Mesopotamian God Dugab-šugigi
The article deals with the Mesopotamian god Dugab-šugigi, listing his attestations in cuneiform literature (including the fragment AO 2540 published in the article), and analyzing his theological role as an intermediate god stationed in gates
A New Manuscript of Ninĝišzida’s Journey to the Netherworld
The article presents an edition of a new manuscript of the Old Babylonian Sumerian myth Ninĝišzida’s Journey to the Netherworld from the Louvre museum. The article deals with the complex literary transmission of this composition, known in different versions with much variation. The myth, lamentful in tone, and including Emesal vocabulary and litanies, is compared to the corpus of Emesal prayers, especially the laments over Damu. The myth is also …
A Literary Topos of Abundance
This study analyses a literary topos concerning the abundance of natural phenomena, including fresh water, reed beds and fish. The standardised sequence listing such abundant natural features occurs in two previously unpublished tablets containing Emesal prayers concerning the god Enki, published in this article. The Old Babylonian tablet, of unknown provenance, attests to a unique composition. The tablet from Late Babylonian Ur, which is partial…
“The Shepherd, What Has He Done?”
The article publishes an Old Babylonian syllabically written tablet of the Eršema su8-ba-de3 ta an- ak , “The shepherd, what has he done?” with duplicates from the first millennium BCE stemming from Nineveh. The composition laments the disappearance of Dumuzi
An Early Old Babylonian Bilingual Version of the Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur
L’article contient une discussion et une édition d’une tablette contenant une partie du troisième Kirugu de la Lamentation sumérienne sur la destruction d’Ur. La tablette contient une traduction akkadienne, et doit probablement être datée du début de la période paléo-babylonienne
Commentaries from ancient mesopotamia
Akkadian commentaries from ancient Mesopotamia, written on cuneiform tablets dating to the first millennium BCE, deal with various texts and exhibit a variety of hermeneutical techniques and concerns. These commentaries are connected to the process of canonization, and also provide a glimpse into the scholarly environment in which they were produced
“In Heaven, at Evening”
The article presents an edition of the Old Babylonian Sumerian Eršema “In heaven, at evening” according to the tablet MS 3406, published here for the first time, and parallels. The Eršema describes Inana lamenting her losses and the capture of her spouse Dumuzi
The Ritual for Opening a Canal From Nineveh
The article presents a philological edition of K.2727+K.6213, a fragmentary tablet from Nineveh that deals with a ritual for opening a canal. The paper discusses other references to this ritual, i.e. parallel sources for this type of ritual, the materials used, the gods addressed, and the specialists who performed the ritual actions
Becoming Marduk
The article deals with a commentary on the Akkadian composition Marduk’s Address to the Demons from the city of Assur. The first part of the article discusses the unique religious view found in Marduk’s Address and its commentary, in which the āšipu priest is identified with the god Marduk. The second part presents a new philological edition of the commentary
The Late Babylonian Series of ‘Ancient Sumerian’
In this article, we shed new light on the series with the emic title ‘Ancient Sumerian’, previously known from the Late Babylonian ritual texts for the New Year Festival. We first establish a new reading of the title, the key to which lies in a Late Babylonian pseudepigraphic letter. Following that, we present the contents of the series, including the edition of the hitherto unpublished tablet BM 32544+ that according to its colophon belongs to t…
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