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Book Review
The Textual Criticism of Sumerian Literature
2015
Overview
[Distributed by ISD, Bristol, Conn.] Paul Delnero's publication The Textual Criticism of Sumerian Literature, based on his doctoral dissertation Variation in Sumerian Literary Compositions: A Case Study Based on the Decad, University of Pennsylvania, 2006, contains a completely new approach to dealing with variants in Sumerian literary compositions of the Old Babylonian Period. To give two examples, if a certain type of variant is not attested in sources from location A, but occurs in locations B and C, Delnero draws the conclusion that is must be a regional variation from B and C. Secondly, whereas the assumption that a typical idiosyncratic variant caused by a lapse of concentration occurs only once on a tablet (Type A variant) seems plausible, inferring that all variants attested once only are errors of that kind may not convince everyone, given the accidental and incomplete nature of this text corpus.
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American Oriental Society
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