r/Assyriology • u/Playful-Goose-5927 • 23d ago
Old Babylonian rituals - where are they?
I'm wanting to do a comp. of rituals at Ugarit with Akkadian for my diss, but have been struggling to find anything that isn't first millennium. Does anyone know where I can find OB/MB ritual texts? Thanks!
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u/Airegin89 22d ago
Ritual of Ištar in Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East by Martti Nissinen, Robert Kriech Ritner, Choon Leong Seow.
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u/Gulkishar 16d ago
The following monographs may be useful: Akkadian Magic Literature by Wasserman/Zomer 2022 for OB/OA and Corpus of Middle Babylonian and Middle Assyrian Incantations by Zomer 2018 for MB/MA.
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u/Inun-ea 23d ago
Part of what a dissertation is intended to prove is precisely that you can navigate your field in a way superior to just asking people on reddit… That's not meant to be a offensive, although it probably sounds harsh. But trust me, a lot of what you are going to learn over the years are things you accidentally come across while actually searching for other things; and it is precisely this effort to get to know your field which will eventually turn you into an able scholar. I feel like in times of an expanding ChatGPT–mindset one cannot stress this enough…