"Und du, du bist eine Frau?!" Editio princeps und Analyse des sumerischen Streitgesprächs 'Zwei Frauen B'
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 33104
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- De Gruyter
- ISBN
- 9783110684803
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110685381
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph is the most significant output of a project on the edition and analysis of Sumerian literary debates between women. The product of years of multi-faceted research, it required extensive archival work at several collections of cuneiform tablets in Europe, America and the Middle East, philological study of a large number of mostly previously unknown and unpublished primary sources, the reconstruction of the most important Mesopotamian text on the role of women in Babylonia 2000 BCE, the production of its principal edition, as well as its analysis from the vantage points of linguistics, rhetoric, and gender and legal history.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This is the first philological-critical edition and detailed investigation of a literary disputation between two women conducted in the Sumerian language, written approximately 4,000 years ago in Babylonia (nowadays Iraq). Their debate on who is the better woman takes a fatal turn and hence has to be resolved at court. “Two Women B” thus provides unique insights into the construction of ideal femininity as well as into procedural law in ancient Babylonia.