In Weapons of Words Selena Wisnom offers a literary study of three poems central to Babylonian culture: Anzû, Enūma elis, and Erra and Isum, demonstrating how each uses sophisticated intertextual allusions to compete with its predecessors.
Selena Wisnom, D.Phil. (2015, University of Oxford), is a Junior Research Fellow in Manuscript and Text Cultures at The Queen's College, Oxford. She specialises in the literary and cultural interpretation of cuneiform sources, particularly poetry and divination.
