Author: Samuel Noah Kramer
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512817384
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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University Museum Monograph, 7

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Languages : en
Pages : 55

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Author: Samuel Noah Kramer
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666750727
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 89

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Author: H. L. Herman L. J. Vanstiphout
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004130691
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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This volume presents for the first time both the authoritative Sumerian text and an elegant English translation of four Sumerian epics, the earliest known in any language. The introduction discusses the intellectual and cultural context as well as the poetics and meaning of this epic cycle.

Author: Thorkild Jacobsen
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300072785
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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Sumerian, the oldest language known, is represented by hundreds of thousands of clay tablets inscribed in the cuneiform writing system. Most of the tablets are devoted to mundane matters- ration lists, annual accounts, deeds, contracts- but a substantial number contain examples of perhaps the earliest poetry extant. In this volume, the eminent Assyriologist Thorkild Jacobsen presents translations of some of these ancient poems, including a number of compositions that have never before been published in translation. "What a wonderful bouquet; a gift to us all from a master Sumeriologist, a singer of human achievement, and a lover of words. Jacobsen needs no introduction and this work is special, and should be found in the home of all human and literate persons. It gives access to the mind of ancient Mesopotamia in a manner rarely duplicated heretofore ... Jacobsen has chosen widely from Sumer's rich literature- myth, epics, hymns, boasts, epithalamia, love songs, lamentations, fables- nad has presented us with perspective renderings". Jack M. Sasson, Religious Studies Review.

Author: J. Cale Johnson
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 364350179X
Category : Sumerian language
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Sumerian, probably the earliest attested language in human history, has no known cognates. Accordingly, many features of Sumerian grammar are still under discussion. Up to now research has focused primarily on questions of Sumerian phonology and morphology. In this present study the author concentrates on syntactic or pragmatic phenomena, especially on the referential properties of the nominal component of certain so-called compound verbs, the unaccusativity contrast, and the possibility of generic quantification in the double object construction.

Author: H.L.J. Vanstiphout
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004502165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: Moshe Greenberg
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 1575060272
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 395

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Forty-five scholars here combine their skills in tribute to their colleague, teacher, and friend. This collection includes 27 English and 18 Hebrew essays on literary criticism, rabbinic literature, Hebrew word studies, Septuagint, Qumran, textual criticism, and many other topics. Moshe Greenberg is perhaps best known for his commentary on Ezekiel in the Anchor Bible series.

Author: Richard S. Hess
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9780931464881
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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Author: Egon Keck
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788772890838
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Living Waters - Scandinavian Oriental Studies. In Honour of Frede Løkkegaard