TY - JOUR
AU - Tooman, William A.
AB - reviews The book contains comprehensive semantic analyses of the pertinent anthropo- nyms, e.g., names whose theme is wisdom, such as Śarru-muda ‘Śarrum is (all) knowing’. An overview of lexemes is offered on pp. 216–27. Altogether there are 116 sumerian appellatives (substantives and verbs, all with lugal) compared with 40 Akkadian (mostly śarrum, but exceptionally with lugal). The lugal-names are semantically compared with the śarrum-names. The lugal-names occupied a more central position in sumerian than śarrum-names did in Akkadian. in addition, lugal-names have a rich and diverse repertoire compared with the limited themes of śarrum-names (pp. 218–27). The latter include only ‘hero’, ‘lion’, ‘strong’; ‘light’ and ‘terrifying’; kinship terms (father, offspring, possibly uncle); ‘knowl- edgeable’, ‘heart’, protection (figurative: ‘shade’, ‘wall’); ‘true, righteous’; ‘kind, beneficient’. The lugal- and śarrum-names are examined in their historical and cultural set- tings. For instance, Śar-kali-śarrī ‘king of all kings’ expresses the supra-national character of the sargonic state, like xšayaθyah xšayaθyānam ‘king of kings’, the Old Persian epithet of the kings of the Achaemenid empire. The discussion includes also the few names containing ‘queen’, e.g. Mama-śarrat ‘(the goddess) Mama is queen’. Ur iii kyriophoric names are anticipated by s argonic anthroponyms with the theophorous element Śarrum-kēn; 
TI - Alexander Samely in collaboration with Philip Alexander, Rocco Bernasconi and Robert Hayward, Profiling Jewish Literature in Antiquity: An Inventory from Second Temple Texts to the Talmuds
JF - Journal of Semitic Studies
DO - 10.1093/jss/fgw063
DA - 2017-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/alexander-samely-in-collaboration-with-philip-alexander-rocco-uJQpH6bm4J
SP - 244
EP - 248
VL - 62
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -