Complete Babylonian: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Babylonian, with Original Texts

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Do you want to engage with Babylonian culture and literature in the original language?The course will introduce you to a fascinating world of gods and demons, heroes and kings.The readings are drawn from myths, letters, law-codes, medical incantations, and other authentic, ancient writings. The language is presented in the Roman alphabet, with an explanation of cuneiform script, and the main features of Assyrian - cognate with Babylonian - are also explained.



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About the author

Dr Martin Worthington is Al Maktoum Associate Professor in Middle Eastern Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He specialises in Babylonian and Assyrian grammar, literature and medicine. In 2009 he received the Greenfield Prize from the American Oriental Society, and in 2011 he was jointly awarded the Sir George Staunton Prize by the Royal Asiatic Society. He also provided the Babylonian translations in the recent Marvel film, Eternals.

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