Periodic Reporting for period 4 - REPAC (Repetition, Parallelism and Creativity: An Inquiry into the Construction of Meaning in Ancient Mesopotamian Literature and Erudition)

REPAC investigates repetition and parallelism as structuring and meaning-constructing devices in Babylonian literature and scholarly writing from the first millennium BCE. REPAC argues that the pervasive use of repetition and parallelism in these texts reflects a...