We are pleased to announce our new publication by Silvia Salin entitled ‘Expressions of Individual Suffering in Assyro-Babylonian Texts‘.
You can download the e-book free of charge in the Publications section of the site, or on our Academia page.
Abstract:
Through an anthropological-linguistic approach, the monograph The Expressions of Individual Suffering in Assyro-Babylonian Texts delves into the analysis of some of the most interesting and important words and expressions of the Akkadian language used to explain individual pain and suffering as perceived in ancient Mesopotamia. It examines medical texts dating from the period between the end of the 2nd millennium and the first half of the 1st millennium BC, alongside the study of literary texts and epistolary letters (the latter in particular dating back to the Neo-Assyrian period), Lakoff and Johnson’s theory of conceptual metaphors is applied where possible, investigating the cultural and social dynamics of the perception of illness and pain by the individual and the society of which he or she is a part, in an attempt to shed new light on some interesting aspects of Mesopotamian culture of that period, which have been little (or partially) addressed so far.
