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Ancient Near Eastern Narratives: Making a Case for the Epistemic Function of Myth in Text and Image with Beate Pongratz-Leisten

Beate Pongratz-Leisten’s book Myth, Text, and Image in Ancient Mesopotamia: A Narrative Reading of the World makes a case for establishing human thinking-in-images as an essential part of ancient Mesopotamian reasoning based in the fact that in the human mind, imagistic thinking exists alongside rational logical thought.