JCS SUPPLEMENTAL SERIES
The Journal of Cuneiform Studies Supplemental Series (JCSSS) is a monograph series dedicated to publishing interpretive studies on the ancient Near East. Each volume is refereed and thoroughly edited. Six volumes have appeared to date, covering a broad array of issues: the social, economic and historical aspects of the Ur III dynasty, late Old Babylonian periods in Mesopotamia, the study of textual variation in Sumerian literature, research at Kültepe-Kanesh, Sumerian texts from Iraq, and the Gilgamesh tradition at Hattusa.
Piotr Michalowski, Series Editor
Most Recent Publication
The Hittite Gilgamesh
by Gary M. Beckman
From the late third millennium BCE on, the adventures of the hero Gilgamesh were well known throughout Babylonia and Assyria, and the discovery of Akkadian-language fragments of versions of his tale at BoÄŸazköy, Ugarit, Emar, and Megiddo demonstrates that tales of the hero’s exploits had reached the periphery of the cuneiform world already in the Late Bronze Age. A century of excavation at the Hittite capital of Hattusa (mod. BoÄŸazköy) has yielded more textual sources for Gilgamesh than are known from all other Late Bronze Age sites combined. The Gilgamesh tradition was imported to Hattusa for use in scribal instruction, and has been of particular importance to modern scholars in reconstructing the epic and analyzing its development, since it documents a period in the history of the narrative for which very few textual witnesses have yet been recovered from Mesopotamia itself. And it is this very Middle Babylonian period to which scholarly consensus assigns the composition of the final, “canonical” version of the epic. The Hittite Gilgamesh offers a full edition of the manuscripts from Hattusa in the Hittite, Akkadian, and Hurrian languages recounting Gilgamesh’s adventures.
Titles
6. Beckman, Gary M. The Hittite Gilgamesh. Atlanta, GA: 2019. Available from .
5. Studevent-Hickman, Benjamin. Sumerian Texts from Ancient Iraq: From Ur III to 9/11. Atlanta, GA: 2018. Available from .
4. Atici, Levent, Fikri Kulakoglu, Gojko Barjamovic, and Andrew Fairbairn, ed. Current Research at Kültepe-Kanesh. Boston, MA: 2014. Available from .
3. DeInero, Paul. The Textual Criticism of Sumerian Literature. Boston, MA: 2012. Available from .
2. Richardson, Seth F. C. Texts from the Late Old Babylonian Period. Boston, MA: 2010. Available from .
1. Piotr Michalowski, ed. On the Third Dynasty of Ur: Studies in Honor of Marcel Sigrist. Boston, MA: 2009. Available from .
Book Reviews
of The Hittite Gilgamesh (JCSSS 6), by Gary M. Beckman (Review by Felipe Rojas, Review of Biblical Literature)
of The Hittite Gilgamesh (JCSSS 6), by Gary M. Beckman (Review by Richard H. Beal, Journal of Near Eastern Studies)
of The Textual Criticism of Sumerian Literature (JCSSS 3), by Paul Delnero (Review by John MacGinnis, Journal of JRAS)
of The Textual Criticism of Sumerian Literature (JCSSS 3), by Paul Delnero (Review by Nicole Brisch, Marginalia)
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