Books by Michael P Streck
Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Studies written in German.
with the collaboration of J. Wende, N. J. C. Kouwenberg, N. Rudik, J. Hackl, , F. Simons and E. Zomer: Supplement to the Akkadian Dictionaries, Volume D, T, Tet = Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien 7,2 (2019). lxviii, 120 pp.
This is the third, revised edition of the Altbabylonisches Lehrbuch. It contains a concise but fu... more This is the third, revised edition of the Altbabylonisches Lehrbuch. It contains a concise but full and up-to-date grammar of Old Babylonian, exercises, and a glossary of the most frequent Old Babylonian words. Cuneiform is introduced with both Old Babylonian cursive and Neo-Assyrian monumental ductus.
This first volume of the Supplement to the Akkadian Dictionaries contains additions to the Akkadi... more This first volume of the Supplement to the Akkadian Dictionaries contains additions to the Akkadisches Handwörterbuch by W. von Soden and the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary.
Online Databases by Michael P Streck
Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie online
The RlA is published on paper, in stout volumes, not as durable as
clay tablets, but probably lon... more The RlA is published on paper, in stout volumes, not as durable as
clay tablets, but probably longer lasting than digital publications.
However, to be compatible with the necessities of our post-paper era,
the volumes have been scanned.
These scans are now accessible via a functional data-base on the
website: https://rla.badw.de. Please click on „Digitaler Zugriff“
<https://rla.badw.de/digitaler-zugriff.html>, and you will access a
search page that allows searching by entries, their English
translations, authors, and categories (such as divine names etc).
Akkadian, i.e. Babylonian and Assyrian, literature, documented on cuneiform tablets from Ancient ... more Akkadian, i.e. Babylonian and Assyrian, literature, documented on cuneiform tablets from Ancient Mesopotamia, forms (together with Sumerian and Egyptian literature) the oldest written literary corpus of mankind.
In the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE (c. 2400–1100), Akkadian literature encompassed many different literary genres: hymns, lamentations, prayers to various gods, incantations against different diseases, demons and other sources of evil, love-lyrics, wisdom literature (proverbs, fables, riddles), as well as epics and myths - roughly 900 different compositions (Summer 2019). Many of these compositions are not yet published in satisfactory modern editions or are scattered throughout a large number of publications.
SEAL is an ongoing project which started in 2007. It aims to compile an exhaustive catalogue of Akkadian literary texts from the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE, to present this corpus in such a way as to enable the efficient study of the entire early Akkadian corpus in all its philological, literary, and historical dimensions. Many of the editions in SEAL rely on new collations and photographs.
Users should be aware that online SEAL is a work-in-process. Streck and Wasserman, and their respective Leipzig and Jerusalem teams, regularly add to the catalogue and improve the texts.
In parallel to the online site, SEAL publishes sections of the corpus in printed monograph form as part of the series Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien (LAOS):
N. Wasserman, Akkadian Love Literature of the 3rd and 2nd Millennium BCE (Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien 4): Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2016.
E. Zomer, Corpus of Middle Babylonian and Middle Assyrian Incantations (Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien 9): Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2018.
N. Wasserman and Elyze Zomer: Akkadian Incantations of the Early 2nd Millennium BCE.
A. Pohl: Old Babylonian Hymns.
Edited Monographs by Michael P Streck
Papers by Michael P Streck
Die Herausgeber danken all denjenigen herzlich, die das Zustandekommen dieser Festschrift unterst... more Die Herausgeber danken all denjenigen herzlich, die das Zustandekommen dieser Festschrift unterstützt und ermöglicht haben.
Maledicta (insults) occur in Akkadian (Babylonian-Assyrian) letters, literary text genres, royal ... more Maledicta (insults) occur in Akkadian (Babylonian-Assyrian) letters, literary text genres, royal inscriptions and lexical texts. A semantic typology of Akkadian maledicta distinguishes the following groups: animals, sexual and scatological maledicta; maledicta referring to dirt, physical or mental handicaps, to an unknown or bad origin, to the abandonment by god; maledicta designating a person as deceiver, denunciator, chatterer, criminal or evildoer. Maledicta are a source for the Mesopotamian canon of values.
Versandkosten. Ein Abonnement gilt, falls nicht befristet bestellt, zur Fortsetzung bis auf Wider... more Versandkosten. Ein Abonnement gilt, falls nicht befristet bestellt, zur Fortsetzung bis auf Widerruf. Kündigungen müssen bis zum Ablauf eines Jahres erfolgen. Mitglieder der DMG erhalten die Zeitschrift für den Mitglieds beitrag (€ 70,-p. a.). Bestellungen an den Harrassowitz Verlag (s. u.) oder über jede Buchhandlung. Die ZDMG kann auch in elektronischer Form als E-Journal kostenpflichtig über Harrassowitz (https://www.harrassowitz-library.com/) bezogen werden. Anträge auf Eintritt in die DMG (Formular auf der Homepage der DMG unter "Die DMG/Mitgliedschaft") und Anschriften änderungen an die Geschäftsführung (s. o.). Fachartikel und Rezensionen: Autorenrichtlinien (style sheet) liegen dem Jahresinhaltsverzeichnis in Heft 2 bei und können von der Homepage der DMG (s. o.) unter "Publikationen/ZDMG" heruntergeladen werden. Beiträge sind in elektronischer Form (möglichst per E-Mail) beim Schriftleiter einzureichen. Rezensionsangebote sind an die Fachherausgeber zu richten (s. o.), von denen auch die Rezensionsexemplare angefordert werden. Für unaufgefordert eingesandte Rezensionsexemplare besteht weder ein Recht auf Besprechung noch auf Rücksendung. Wenn erwünscht, wird eine Replik veröffentlicht, jedoch keine Gegenreplik. Der Redaktion angebotene Beiträge dürfen nicht bereits veröffentlicht sein oder gleichzeitig veröffentlicht werden. Das gilt auch für Online-Veröffentlichungen. Wieder abdrucke erfordern die Zustimmung der Herausgeber. Die ZDMG ist ein refereed journal. Die Autoren sind für die wissenschaftlichen Aussagen und Meinungen in ihren Beiträgen ausschließlich selbst verantwortlich.
Duplication in Early Akkadian Literature. The Duplicates of the Papulegara Hymns, Ištar Louvre, and the Dialogue Between Father and Son (together with N. Wasserman), Orientalia 92 (2023) 202-229., 2023
In this study, we present newly discovered duplicates of three significant Old Babylonian literar... more In this study, we present newly discovered duplicates of three significant Old Babylonian literary texts. 1) An unpublished Louvre duplicate (AO 6161) of the Papulegara hymns collection, which is currently housed at the British Museum. 2) A recently published Geneva duplicate (MAH 16069 = Cavigneaux and Clevenstine 2020) of the large hymnic ritual commonly referred to as Ištar-Louvre. 3) The Yale prism (YBC 2394 = Foster and George 2020), which contains an almost complete version of the Dialogue Between Father and Son. Previously, only a small fragment of this text was known. The paper provides a philological commentary and a thorough discussion of these duplicates, considering the relatively uncommon phenomenon of duplicate literary texts during the Old Babylonian period.
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clay tablets, but probably longer lasting than digital publications.
However, to be compatible with the necessities of our post-paper era,
the volumes have been scanned.
These scans are now accessible via a functional data-base on the
website: https://rla.badw.de. Please click on „Digitaler Zugriff“
<https://rla.badw.de/digitaler-zugriff.html>, and you will access a
search page that allows searching by entries, their English
translations, authors, and categories (such as divine names etc).
In the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE (c. 2400–1100), Akkadian literature encompassed many different literary genres: hymns, lamentations, prayers to various gods, incantations against different diseases, demons and other sources of evil, love-lyrics, wisdom literature (proverbs, fables, riddles), as well as epics and myths - roughly 900 different compositions (Summer 2019). Many of these compositions are not yet published in satisfactory modern editions or are scattered throughout a large number of publications.
SEAL is an ongoing project which started in 2007. It aims to compile an exhaustive catalogue of Akkadian literary texts from the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE, to present this corpus in such a way as to enable the efficient study of the entire early Akkadian corpus in all its philological, literary, and historical dimensions. Many of the editions in SEAL rely on new collations and photographs.
Users should be aware that online SEAL is a work-in-process. Streck and Wasserman, and their respective Leipzig and Jerusalem teams, regularly add to the catalogue and improve the texts.
In parallel to the online site, SEAL publishes sections of the corpus in printed monograph form as part of the series Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien (LAOS):
N. Wasserman, Akkadian Love Literature of the 3rd and 2nd Millennium BCE (Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien 4): Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2016.
E. Zomer, Corpus of Middle Babylonian and Middle Assyrian Incantations (Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien 9): Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2018.
N. Wasserman and Elyze Zomer: Akkadian Incantations of the Early 2nd Millennium BCE.
A. Pohl: Old Babylonian Hymns.
Edited Monographs by Michael P Streck
Papers by Michael P Streck