Author: C.J. Gadd
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5873153027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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Author: Jeremy A. Black
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801435980
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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An authority on ancient Mesopotamian culture, Jeremy Black here provides an introduction to the world's oldest poetry. Sumer, in southern Iraq, was the first literate civilization, with writing dating back as far as 3100 B.C. Its extensive poetic literature was lost for nearly two millennia; rediscovery and decipherment of the ancient writings began in the nineteenth century. Black is fully aware of the difficulties of applying modern literary methods to the study of ancient literature, emphasizing theoretical problems that arise from contemporary expectations of a unitary text. Looking closely at the imagery in the Lugalbanda poems, Black perceives in them a rich and sophisticated poetic imagination and technique, which, far from being in any sense "primitive," are so complex as to resist modern literary analysis.

Author: Joshua Bowen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734358605
Category : Sumerian language
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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Author: Konrad Volk
Publisher: Gregorian Biblical BookShop
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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This book contains 44 texts of varying contents: royal inscriptions, legal, and economic documents. For pedagogical reasons literary texts are not included. Some of the texts are accompanied by a transliteration and/or version in Neo-Assyrian so that the students can learn the Neo-Assyrian forms which are of basic importance for the use of the sign list book and for most assyriological sign lists.

Author: Jeremy A. Black
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199296330
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Sumerian is the oldest written language of ancient Iraq, first written down some 5,000 years ago. Its literature, encompassing narrative myths, lyrical hymns, proverbs and love poetry, provides a stimulating insight into the world's first urban civilization. This is a comprehensive collection.

Author: John Lewis Hayes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780890035085
Category : Sumerian language
Languages : en
Pages : 471

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Author: C. B. F. Walker
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520061156
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Describes the writing system used from before 3000 BC to AD 75 by Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, and other Mesopotamian cultures.

Author: Enheduanna
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292752429
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Around 2,300 BC Enheduanna was high priestess to the moon god Nanna at his temple in Ur, a position she held for almost forty years. This volume translates Enheduanna's three devotional poems to the goddess Inanna accompanied by an extensive commentary and discussion which places these highly personal and unique expressions within the context of Sumerian culture and religion. The author highlights the importance of the poems and the princess for our understanding of the place of women in Near Eastern society and religion.

Author: Leonard Woolley
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393002928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Describes the civilization of the Sumerians, who inhabited the land which today is Iraq, in the beginning of the fourth millennium B.C.

Author: Samuel Noah Kramer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226452328
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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“A readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture” from a world-renowned Sumerian scholar (American Journal of Archaeology). The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world. “An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity.” —Library Journal