Basing himself on a careful study of all hitherto published (and some unpublished) Old-Babylonian literary texts - roughly 270 different compositions of all literary genres - Dr. Wasserman systematically leads the reader to a number of insightful conclusions regarding distinctive style and outstandi
Literary Old Babylonian
β Scribed by Shlomo Izre'el and Eran Cohen
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