Enmerkar And The Lord Of Aratta

Download or read book Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta written by Samuel Noah Kramer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Epics of Sumerian Kings written by H. L. Herman L. J. Vanstiphout and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Harps that Once-- written by Thorkild Jacobsen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia written by Charles Halton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology translates and discusses texts authored by women of ancient Mesopotamia.

Download or read book I Studied Inscriptions from Before the Flood written by Richard S. Hess and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1994 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Unaccusativity and the Double Object Construction in Sumerian written by J. Cale Johnson and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book תהלה למשה written by Moshe Greenberg and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.