Approaches to Sumerian literature; studies in honor of Stip (H.L.J. Vanstiphout).900415325X Approaches to Sumerian literature; studies in honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. of Stip (H.L.J. Vanstiphout). Ed. by Piotr Michalowski and Niek Veldhuis. Brill Brill or Bril, Flemish painters, brothers. Mattys Brill (mä`tīs), 1550–83, went to Rome early in his career and executed frescoes for Gregory XIII in the Vatican. Academic Publishers 2006 247 pages $122.00 Hardcover Cuneiform cuneiform (ky  nē`ĭfôrm) [Lat.,=wedge-shaped], system of writing developed before the last centuries of the 4th millennium B.C. monographs; v.35
PJ4045 Dutch cuneiform scholar Vanstiphout has been concerned not so much with what ancient Mesopotamian texts say, but how they produce their message. Contributors identified only by name further his structural approach in essays on such aspects of Sumerian literature as the parodia sacra sa·cra n. Plural of sacrum. , the royal correspondence of Ur reconsidered, whether Man and His God is a wisdom poem or a cultic lament, and how people learned to write cuneiform anyway. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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