Humour in Sumerian Didactic Literature
(2023)
Book Chapter
Matuszak, J. (2023). Humour in Sumerian Didactic Literature. In R. Rollinger, I. Madreiter, M. Lang, & C. Pappi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Innsbruck 2018 (597-612). Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Outputs (12)
"Und du, du bist eine Frau?!" Editio princeps und Analyse des sumerischen Streitgesprächs 'Zwei Frauen B' (2020)
Book
Matuszak, J. "Und du, du bist eine Frau?!" Editio princeps und Analyse des sumerischen Streitgesprächs 'Zwei Frauen B'. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110685381This is the first philological-critical edition and detailed investigation of a literary disputation between two women conducted in the Sumerian language, written approx. 4,000 years ago in Babylonia. Their debate on the status of womanhood finally e... Read More about "Und du, du bist eine Frau?!" Editio princeps und Analyse des sumerischen Streitgesprächs 'Zwei Frauen B'.
"She was dumbstruck and took it to heart." Form and Function of Insults in Sumerian Literary Disputations between Women (2020)
Book Chapter
Matuszak, J. (2020). "She was dumbstruck and took it to heart." Form and Function of Insults in Sumerian Literary Disputations between Women. In E. Jiménez, & C. Mittermayer (Eds.), Disputation Literature in the Near East and Beyond. De Gruyter
“Skipped Lines” (MU.MEŠ GU4.UD.MEŠ) in Balaĝ and Eršema Prayers (2020)
Book Chapter
Mirelman, S., & Gabbay, U. (2020). “Skipped Lines” (MU.MEŠ GU4.UD.MEŠ) in Balaĝ and Eršema Prayers. In J. Baldwin, & J. Matuszak (Eds.), mu-zu an-za3-še3 kur-ur2-še3 ḫe2-ĝal2. Altorientalistische Studien zu Ehren von Konrad Volk (87-116). Zaphon
mu-zu an-za3-še3 kur-ur2-še3 ḫe2-ĝal2. Altorientalistische Studien zu Ehren von Konrad Volk (2020)
Book
Matuszak, J., & Baldwin, J. (Eds.). (2020). mu-zu an-za3-še3 kur-ur2-še3 ḫe2-ĝal2. Altorientalistische Studien zu Ehren von Konrad Volk. ZaphonTwenty studies are devoted to the Ancient Near Eastern scholar Konrad Volk. Among others, C. Mittermayer and P. Attinger have established a score edition of the Sumerian composition "Enmerkara and Ensukukedana" comprising all known texts. C. Wunsch o... Read More about mu-zu an-za3-še3 kur-ur2-še3 ḫe2-ĝal2. Altorientalistische Studien zu Ehren von Konrad Volk.
Es streite, wer kann! Ein neuer Rekonstruktions- und Interpretationversuch für das sumerische Schulstreitgespräch ‚Dialog 1’ (2019)
Journal Article
Matuszak, J. (2019). Es streite, wer kann! Ein neuer Rekonstruktions- und Interpretationversuch für das sumerische Schulstreitgespräch ‚Dialog 1’. Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, 109(1), 1-47. https://doi.org/10.1515/za-2019-0001On the basis of the recent edition of Dialogue 1 by J. C. Johnson and M. J. Geller (2015), this article offers a
revised text reconstruction as well as a differing interpretation of the text and its protagonists. The interpretation of
Dialogue 1 as... Read More about Es streite, wer kann! Ein neuer Rekonstruktions- und Interpretationversuch für das sumerische Schulstreitgespräch ‚Dialog 1’.
Assessing Misogyny in Sumerian Disputations and Diatribes (2019)
Book Chapter
Matuszak, J. (2019). Assessing Misogyny in Sumerian Disputations and Diatribes. In A. Garcia-Ventura, & S. Svärd (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Gender, Methodology, and the Ancient Near East (259-272). Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona
La imagen de la esposa ideal según la literatura didáctica sumeria (2018)
Book Chapter
Matuszak, J. (2018). La imagen de la esposa ideal según la literatura didáctica sumeria. In J. J. Justel, & A. Garcia-Ventura (Eds.), Las mujeres en el Oriente cuneiforme (141-158). Universidad de Alcalá Servicio de Publicaciones
Don't Insult Inana! Divine Retribution for Offense against Common Decency in the Light of New Textual Sources (2017)
Book Chapter
Matuszak, J. (2017). Don't Insult Inana! Divine Retribution for Offense against Common Decency in the Light of New Textual Sources. In O. Drewnoska, & M. Sandowicz (Eds.), Fortune and Misfortune in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the 60th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Warsaw 21-25 July 2014 (359-370). Eisenbrauns
"She is not fit for womanhood" The Ideal Housewife According to Sumerian Literary Texts (2016)
Book Chapter
Matuszak, J. (2016). "She is not fit for womanhood" The Ideal Housewife According to Sumerian Literary Texts. In B. Lion, & C. Michel (Eds.), The Role of Women in Work and Society in the Ancient Near East (228-254). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614519089-014