T.M.

OSHIMA

Babylonian Prayers to Marduk

[Babylonische Gebete an Marduk.]

Published in English.
This is the rst comprehensive study of Babylonian prayers dedicated to Marduk, the god of
Babylon, since J. Hehn's essay Hymnen und Gebete an Marduk (1905). Marduk was the god of
the city of Babylon and was the most important god in Babylonia from the time of Hammurabi
(the 18th century BCE) onwards. In this book, Takayoshi Oshima presents an up-to-date catalog
of all known Babylonian prayers dedicated to Marduk from di erent historical periods and
o ers critical editions of 31 ancient texts based on newly identi ed manuscripts and a collation
of the previously published manuscripts. The author also discusses various aspects of Akkadian
prayers to di erent deities and the ancient belief in the mechanism of punishment and
redemption by Marduk.

T.M. Oshima Born 1967; PhD in Assyriology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel;
200810 Alexander-von-Humboldt fellow at the University of Leipzig in Germany; 201013
2011. XVIII, 483 pages. research fellow at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena (project of the German Research
ORA 7 Foundation (DFG); since 2015 another DFG project at the University of Leipzig.

ISBN 978-3-16-150831-8
cloth 119,00

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