Erra poem

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The Erra poem (also Erra epic, Erra myth or Išum-Erra epic) ša gimir dadmē , king of all abodes, is a Babylonian literary work written by the priest Kabta-ilī-Marduk or Kabti-ilāni-Marduk , son of Dabibu was written.

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The poem tells of the plan of the plague god Era to usurp power and destroy Babylon . The reason for this is the behavior of the people who lack respect for the gods and disturb them with their noise. His vizier Isum can ultimately dissuade him from this plan.

Lore

Copies of this poem have been found in Niniveh , Aššur ( KAR 169), Sultantepe and Babylon . It was usually distributed on five boards.

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The poem differs from other Babylonian mythological tales in that it mainly consists of dialogues. The acting persons are all gods. In addition to Marduk , Era and Išum, the Šebetti , Annunaki and Anu perform .

literature

  • FNH al-Rawi, JA Black, The Second Tablet of "Išum and Erra". Iraq 51, 1989, 111-122.
  • Daniel Bodi : The Book of Ezekiel and the Poem of Erra. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 104. University Press Freiburg, Switzerland and Vanderhoek and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1991.
  • L. Cagni, L'Epopea dell Erra. Rome, Instituto de Studi del Vicino Oriente, Studi Semitici 34, 1969.
  • Erich Ebeling , The Akkadian Myth of the Plague God Erra. Berlin, BBK II / 1, self-published by the author, 1925.
  • P. Felix Gössler, The Era-Epic. Würzburg, Augustine 1955.
  • WG Lambert, Ancestors, Authors and Canonicity. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 11/1, 1957.
  • WG Lambert, The Fifth Tablet of the Era Epic. Iraq 24/2, 1962, 119-125.
  • R. Frankena, Het Epos van het Pestgott Irra. JEOL 15, 1957/58
  • E. Reiner, More fragments of the Epic of Erra. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 17, 1958, 41-48.
  • JJM Roberts, Erra: Scorched Earth. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 24 / 1–2, 1971.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Bodi, The book of Ezekiel and the Poem of Erra. Saint-Paul, 1991, 60; Luigi Cagni, The Poem of Erra. Undena Publications, Malibu 1977, 6-18
  2. ^ P. Felix Gössler, Das Era-Epos, Würzburg, Augustinus 1955; WG Lambert, Ancestors, Authors and Canonicity. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 11/1, 1957
  3. ↑ Wolfram von Soden , Etemenanki before Asarhaddon based on the story of the Tower of Babel and the Erra myth. Ugarit research, international yearbook for the archeology of Syria-Palestine 3, Münster, Ugarit-Verlag 1971
  4. ↑ WG Lambert, Lemma Ira, In: Erich Ebeling, Bruno Meißner (Ed.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Aräologie, Berlin, de Gruyter, 166