Bendt Alster
Biographic Data
| ID | 708796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bendt Alster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bendt |
| FAMILY NAME | Alster |
| SIGNATURE | ALSTER B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sargonic dinner at Kaneš: The Old Assyrian Sargon legend
A very unusual literary tablet, Kt. j/k 97 from Kültepe, was published by C. Günbattı in 1997. It is inscribed with what already the first editor described as an Old Assyrian version of legends about Sargon. Since then the tablet has caused a good deal of discussion. Translations or editions have been made by M. Van De Mieroop (2000), K. Hecker (2001), B. Foster (2002, 2005), A. Cavigneaux (2005), and J. G. Dercksen (2005). These studies represen…
New Sources for Dumuzi's Dream
The article contains a summary of sources for the Sumerian composition Dumuzi's Dream that have become known since the edition by Alster (1972). A particularly interesting tablet from Susa published by Durand (1990) with many unusual syllabic writings is edited in its entirety. Two new sources from the California Museum of Ancient Art in Los Angeles are published for the first time, resulting in an improved reconstruction of lines 71–89. Two sour…
Demons in the conclusion of Lugalbanda in Hurrumkurra
The Sumerian epic of Lugalbanda in Hurrumkurra has not yet been edited in its entirety, but important contributions have been made in particular by CI. Wilcke and W. W. Hallo (Wilcke 1969, Hallo 1983, cf. Wilcke 1987). There now exist two complete translations: one by J. A. Black from 1998 (1998: 176–84), virtually identical with the translation accessible on the website of the University of Oxford's Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature …
Exit Ašimbabbar? The Reading of d AŠ/dili-ím-barbar
Sumerian Proverbs in Their Curricular Context
Bendt Alster has published a two-volume edition of all known Old Babylonian Sumerian proverbs. This publication provides an opportunity to look at the proverbs as a corpus and to investigate their actual use. Proverbs are mostly found on school tablets. The curriculum of the school and the position of the proverbs therein is relatively well known. Part I of this article explores some of the implications of looking at the proverbs as didactic inst…
Inanna und Šukaletuda: Zur historisch-politischen Deutung eines sumerischen Literaturwerkes
Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, Part 58: Sumerian Literary Texts
The Harps That Once: Sumerian Poetry in Translation . Thorkild Jacobsen
The Lamentation over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur. Mesopotamian Civilizations, Vol 1 . Piotr Michalowski
Myths of Enki, the Crafty God . Samuel Noah Kramer , John Maier
Court ceremonial and marriage in the Sumerian epic ‘Gilgamesh and Huwawa
Four versions of an episode in the Sumerian composition ‘Gilgamesh and Huwawa’ are discussed here. The encounter of Gilgamesh and Huwawa is interpreted in terms of Gilgamesh playing the role of a visitor received in audience at a foreign court. His gifts aim at inviting Huwawa to reciprocate, and thereby give up his protection. Gilgamesh especially exploits Huwawa's social isolation and lack of noble ancestry by offering him his two sisters, one …
The Sumerian Folktale of the Three Ox-Drivers from Adab
Shuruppak’s Instructions — Additional lines identified in the Early Dynastic Version
Article Shuruppak’s Instructions — Additional lines identified in the Early Dynastic Version was published on January 1, 1990 in the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (volume 80, issue 1-2)
Your Thwarts in Pieces, Your Mooring Rope Cut: Poetry from Babylonia and Assyria
An Akkadian Animal Proverb and the Assyrian Letter ABL 555
The Textual History of the Legend of Etana
A Note on the Uriah Letter in the Sumerian Sargon Legend
Article A Note on the Uriah Letter in the Sumerian Sargon Legend was published on January 1, 1987 in the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (volume 77, issue 2)
Geštinanna as Singer and the Chorus of Uruk and Zabalam: Uet 6/1 22
Death in Mesopotamia
Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures . G. S. Kirk
A Sumerian Riddle Collection
On the Earliest Sumerian Literary Tradition
On the Interpretation of the Sumerian Myth “Inanna and Enki”
Paradoxical Proverbs and Satire in Sumerian Literature
On the Interpretation of the Sumerian Myth “Inanna and Enki”
Article On the Interpretation of the Sumerian Myth “Inanna and Enki” was published on January 1, 1974 in the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (volume 64, issue 1)
Sumerian Proverbs in Their Curricular Context
Bendt Alster has published a two-volume edition of all known Old Babylonian Sumerian proverbs. This publication provides an opportunity to look at the proverbs as a corpus and to investigate their actual use. Proverbs are mostly found on school tablets. The curriculum of the school and the position of the proverbs therein is relatively well known. Part I of this article explores some of the implications of looking at the proverbs as didactic inst…
"Ninurta and the Turtle", UET 6/1 2
On the Earliest Sumerian Literary Tradition
Who is Dumuzi's friend (ku-li)?”
Sum. nam-en, nam-lagar
"Ninurta and the Turtle", UET 6/1 2
On the Interpretation of the Sumerian Myth “Inanna and Enki”
Article On the Interpretation of the Sumerian Myth “Inanna and Enki” was published on January 1, 1974 in the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (volume 64, issue 1)
En.mete.na: His Own Lord
On the Interpretation of the Sumerian Myth “Inanna and Enki”
Paradoxical Proverbs and Satire in Sumerian Literature
A Sumerian Riddle Collection
On the Earliest Sumerian Literary Tradition
Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures . G. S. Kirk
Death in Mesopotamia
Geštinanna as Singer and the Chorus of Uruk and Zabalam: Uet 6/1 22
A Note on the Uriah Letter in the Sumerian Sargon Legend
Article A Note on the Uriah Letter in the Sumerian Sargon Legend was published on January 1, 1987 in the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (volume 77, issue 2)
An Akkadian Animal Proverb and the Assyrian Letter ABL 555
The Textual History of the Legend of Etana
Shuruppak’s Instructions — Additional lines identified in the Early Dynastic Version
Article Shuruppak’s Instructions — Additional lines identified in the Early Dynastic Version was published on January 1, 1990 in the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (volume 80, issue 1-2)
Your Thwarts in Pieces, Your Mooring Rope Cut: Poetry from Babylonia and Assyria
The Sumerian Folktale of the Three Ox-Drivers from Adab
Court ceremonial and marriage in the Sumerian epic ‘Gilgamesh and Huwawa
Four versions of an episode in the Sumerian composition ‘Gilgamesh and Huwawa’ are discussed here. The encounter of Gilgamesh and Huwawa is interpreted in terms of Gilgamesh playing the role of a visitor received in audience at a foreign court. His gifts aim at inviting Huwawa to reciprocate, and thereby give up his protection. Gilgamesh especially exploits Huwawa's social isolation and lack of noble ancestry by offering him his two sisters, one …
The Lamentation over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur. Mesopotamian Civilizations, Vol 1 . Piotr Michalowski
Myths of Enki, the Crafty God . Samuel Noah Kramer , John Maier
The Harps That Once: Sumerian Poetry in Translation . Thorkild Jacobsen
Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, Part 58: Sumerian Literary Texts
Inanna und Šukaletuda: Zur historisch-politischen Deutung eines sumerischen Literaturwerkes
Sumerian Proverbs in Their Curricular Context
Bendt Alster has published a two-volume edition of all known Old Babylonian Sumerian proverbs. This publication provides an opportunity to look at the proverbs as a corpus and to investigate their actual use. Proverbs are mostly found on school tablets. The curriculum of the school and the position of the proverbs therein is relatively well known. Part I of this article explores some of the implications of looking at the proverbs as didactic inst…
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