Analysing Literary Sumerian - Corpus-based Approaches - Jarle Ebeling
On divine-referent bull metaphors in the ETCSL corpus
Analysing Literary Sumerian - Corpus-based Approaches - Jarle Ebeling
Jarle Ebeling [+]
University of Oxford
Jarle Ebeling is a researcher at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, specializing in corpus linguistics.
Description
This chapter explores the significance of animals in references to the deities in Sumerian literature, focusing on one type of imagery -- the bull metaphor. It uses the ETCSL to examine frequencies of the images.