Adapa and the south wind : language has the power of life and death / Shlomo Izre'el.

The scholarly world first became aware of the myth of Adapa and the South Wind when it was 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...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Izre'el, Shlomo
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2001.
Series:	Mesopotamian civilizations ; 10.
Subjects:	Adapa (Assyro-Babylonian mythology) Assyro-Babylonian poetry > History and criticism. Assyro-Babylonian poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc.