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Adapa and the South Wind: Language Has the Power of Life and Death (Mesopotamian Civilizations)

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The scholarly world first became aware of the myth of Adapa and the South Wind when it used to be discovered on a tablet from the El-Amarna archive in 1887. We now have at our disposal six fragments of the myth. The largest and most important fragment, from Amarna, is dated to the 14th century B.C.E. This fragment of the Adapa myth has red-tinted points applied on the tablet at specific intervals. Izre’el draws attention to a couple of of these points that were missed in previous publications by Knudtzon and Schroeder. Five other fragments were a part of the Assurbanipal library and are representative of this myth as it used to be known in Assyria about seven centuries later.

The discovery of the myth of Adapa and the South Wind immediately attracted wide attention. Its ideology and its correspondence to the intellectual heritage of Western religions precipitated flourishing studies of this myth, both philological and substantive. Many translations have appeared all through the past century, shedding light on more than a few aspects of the myth and its characters. Izre’el unveils the myth of Adapa and the South Wind as mythos, as story. To try this, he analyzes the underlying concepts through extensive remedy of form. He offers an edition of the extant fragments of the myth, including the transliterated Akkadian text, a translation, and a philological remark. The analysis of poetic form that follows results in understanding the myth as a piece of literature and to uncovering its meanings. This study due to this fact marks a new phase in the long, extensive research into this Mesopotamian myth.

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