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Hace 17 horas · Naming conventions. The text is best known under its modern name Sumerian King List, which is often abbreviated to SKL in scholarly literature. A less-used name is the Chronicle of the One Monarchy, reflecting the notion that, according to this text, there could ever be only one city exercising kingship over Mesopotamia. In contemporary sources, the SKL was called after its first word: "nam ...
Hace 17 horas · “They Have Given Us The Land” by Juan Rulfo This story is from Juan Rulfo ’s excellent The Plain In Flames , a collection of stories set in Jalisco in the time after the Mexican Revolution. I imagine like many English readers, I came to Rulfo from Gabriel García Márquez and other Latin American Boom writers gushing about him and have spent years chasing different translations of his work.
Hace 17 horas · Etymology Canaan. The English term "Canaan" (pronounced / ˈ k eɪ n ən / since c. 1500, due to the Great Vowel Shift) comes from the Hebrew כנען (Kənaʿan), via the Koine Greek Χανααν Khanaan and the Latin Canaan.It appears as Kinâḫna (Akkadian: 𒆳𒆠𒈾𒄴𒈾, KUR ki-na-aḫ-na) in the Amarna letters (14th century BC) and several other ancient Egyptian texts.
