Lesson 4: Mesopotamian Sacred Texts
The language spoke between the Sumerian and the Akkadians (Mesopotamia L1: Candēns 3:07)
What is the Semitic language?
“Enuma Elish contains material concerning how the world was created” (Schneider 63)
What does Enuma Elish material contain?
The reconstruction of Syrian-Canaanite religion documents included myths, legends, incantations, prayers, hymns, votive texts, god lists, etc. (Wright 131)
What did the Syrian-Canaanite religion documents contain?
One of the first forms of a writing system invented around 3,000 B.C.E. (Mesopotamia L1: Elish 1:24)
What is Cuneiform?
Assyrian trading colony at Karum Kanesh (Schneider 59)
Inscriptions from Assur referred to what in its texts?
“Sacrifice the central activity of the cult, and was conceived of as a meal given to the deity” (Wright 139)
What did sacrifice mean in the story of Aqhat?
An ancient Mesopotamian cosmology that describes the struggle for control of the universe (Mesopotamia L1: Candēns 3:47)
Enuma Elish
A lexical text known as An-Annum lists the major gods of the Babylonian pantheon (Schneider 62)
What is An-Annum?
Kirta did not bring Athirat her promised vow offering (Wright 134)
What does Athirat do for making Kirta ill?
Women lost their positions of power and stripped of basic human rights (Mesopotamia L1: Candēns 11:48)
What happened to women's social status when the Akkadians conquered the Sumerians?
The names of Marduk appeared on the Tablet VII of the epic (Schneider 62)
What is the cult statue of Marduk?
“texts in the Phoenician dialect of the western Mediterranean starting in the fifth century BCE” (Wright 132)
What is Punic texts?
A votive for the Igigi to serve the Anunnaki (Mesopotamia L1: Candēns 13:22)
What was the new social order to be established between the older and younger generations?
“Shurpu was a collection of spells and rituals” (Schneider 76)
What is Shurpu?
“An offering of a ram and donkey… the animal is borne aloft to the gods by means of the sacrificial process” (Wright 140)
What offering was in the ritual text from Ugarit?