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Book Synopsis Analysing Literary Sumerian by : Jarle Ebeling
Download or read book Analysing Literary Sumerian written by Jarle Ebeling and published by Equinox Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2007 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together pioneering studies on the world's oldest literature, composed in the extinct language Sumerian and written on clay in the cuneiform (wedge-shaped) script. All the contributions are based on the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL), a project of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University whose focus is on the best documented period of Sumerian literature, compositions recorded some 4,000 years ago in southern Iraq. The ETCSL consists of transliterations and translations of nearly 400 compositions and is accessible via the Internet. It is the only linguistically annotated and translated corpus of an ancient Near Eastern language. Each of the main chapters in the book uses the ETCSL to approach a specific question relating to one or more compositions in the corpus, exploiting the possibilities the corpus offers for quantitative research and statistical analysis. In addition to these case studies, the book includes introductions to Sumerian literary language and corpus-linguistic approaches to research, as well as a catalogue of compositions. The material, methods, and results will appeal to those interested in Sumerian, ancient literature, and the analysis of languages using a corpus.
Book Synopsis Approaches to Sumerian Literature by : Piotr Michalowski
Download or read book Approaches to Sumerian Literature written by Piotr Michalowski and published by Cuneiform Monographs. This book was released on 2006 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains eleven articles, demonstrating the broad variety of scholarly approaches to the study of Sumerian literature. It is dedicated to H.L.J. Vanstiphout at the occasion of his retirement from the University of Groningen, July 14th 2006.
Book Synopsis The World's Oldest Literature by : William W. Hallo
Download or read book The World's Oldest Literature written by William W. Hallo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature begins at Sumer, we may say. Given that this ancient crossroads of tin and copper produced not only bronze and the entire Bronze Age, but also by neccesity, the first system of record-keeping and the technique of writing. Scribal schools served to propogate the new technique and their curriculum grew to create, preserve and transmit all manner of creative poetry. In a lifetime of research, the author has studied multiple aspects of this most ancient literary oeuvre, including such questions as chronology and bilingualism, as well as contributing fundamental insights into specific genres such as proverbs, letter-prayers and lamentations. In addition, he has drawn conclusions for the comparative or contextual approach to biblical literature. His studies, widely scattered in diverse publications for nearly fifty years, are here assembled in convenient one-volume format, made more user-friendly by extensive cross-references and indices.
Book Synopsis The Literature of Ancient Sumer by : Jeremy Black
Download or read book The Literature of Ancient Sumer written by Jeremy Black and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-11-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of Sumerian literature constitutes the most comprehensive collection ever published, and includes examples of most of the different types of composition written in the language, from narrative myths and lyrical hymns to proverbs and love poetry. The translations have benefited both from the work of many scholars and from our ever-increasing understanding of Sumerian. In addition to reflecting the advances made by modern scholarship, the translations are written in clear, accessible English. An extensive introduction discusses the literary qualities of the works, the people who created and copied them in ancient Iraq, and how the study of Sumerian literature has evolved over the last 150 years.
Book Synopsis Religion, Literature, and Scholarship: The Sumerian Composition Nanše and the Birds by : Niek Veldhuis
Download or read book Religion, Literature, and Scholarship: The Sumerian Composition Nanše and the Birds written by Niek Veldhuis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses insights from religious studies, literary theory, and the history of science for understanding the Sumerian composition Nanše and the Birds in the context of the Old Babylonian scribal school. It contains editions of all the relevant Sumerian texts.
Book Synopsis The Literature of Ancient Sumer by : Jeremy A. Black
Download or read book The Literature of Ancient Sumer written by Jeremy A. Black and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Sumerians by : Samuel Noah Kramer
Download or read book The Sumerians written by Samuel Noah Kramer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. "There are few scholars in the world qualified to write such a book, and certainly Kramer is one of them. . . . One of the most valuable features of this book is the quantity of texts and fragments which are published for the first time in a form available to the general reader. For the layman the book provides a readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture. For the specialist it presents a synthesis with which he may not agree but from which he will nonetheless derive stimulation."—American Journal of Archaeology "An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity."—Library Journal
Book Synopsis Sumerian Mythology by : Samuel Noah Kramer
Download or read book Sumerian Mythology written by Samuel Noah Kramer and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sumerians were a non-Semitic, non-Indo-European people who flourished in southern Babylonia from the beginning of the fourth to the end of the third millennium B.C. During this long stretch of time the Sumerians, whose racial and linguistic affiliations are still unclassifiable, represented the dominant cultural group of the entire Near East. This cultural dominance manifested itself in three directions: 1. It was the Sumerians who developed and probably invented the cuneiform system of writing which was adopted by nearly all the peoples of the Near East and without which the cultural progress of western Asia would have been largely impossible. 2. The Sumerians developed religious and spiritual concepts together with a remarkably well integrated pantheon which influenced profoundly all the peoples of the Near East, including the Hebrews and the Greeks. Moreover, by way of Judaism, Christianity, and Mohammedanism, not a few of these spiritual and religious concepts have permeated the modern civilized world. 3. The Sumerians produced a vast and highly developed literature, largely poetic in character, consisting of epics and myths, hymns and lamentations, proverbs and “words of wisdom.” These compositions are inscribed in cuneiform script on clay tablets which date largely from approximately 2000 B.C.
Book Synopsis Wisdom of Ancient Sumer by : Bendt Alster
Download or read book Wisdom of Ancient Sumer written by Bendt Alster and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussion of the nature of Sumerian wisdom literature and complete editions of many Sumerian wisdom texts, including the Instructions of Shuruppak, Instructions of Ur-Ninurta, Counsels of Wisdom, Sumerian fables, Nothing Is of Value, Ballade of Early Rulers, and more. This unusual book describes the Sumerian literature and many of their proverbs featured in speeches of wise men of that time.
Book Synopsis The Reception of Sumerian Literature in the Western Periphery by : Maurizio Viano
Download or read book The Reception of Sumerian Literature in the Western Periphery written by Maurizio Viano and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sumerian Mythology by : Samuel Noah Kramer
Download or read book Sumerian Mythology written by Samuel Noah Kramer and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Textual Criticism of Sumerian Literature by : Paul Delnero
Download or read book The Textual Criticism of Sumerian Literature written by Paul Delnero and published by American Society of Overseas Research. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Mechanical errors -- Local and regional variation -- Diachronic variation -- Variants in sources compiled by the same scribe or group of scribes -- Idiosyncratic variants -- Interpretive variants -- Procedure for evaluating textual variation -- Conclusion.
Book Synopsis Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection by : Christopher Metcalf
Download or read book Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection written by Christopher Metcalf and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a series of volumes publishing the Sumerian literary texts in the Schøyen Collection, this book makes available, for the first time, editions of seventeen cuneiform tablets, dating to ca. 2000 BCE and containing works of Sumerian religious poetry. Edited, translated, and annotated by Christopher Metcalf, these poems shed light on the interaction between cult, scholarship, and scribal culture in Mesopotamia in the early second millennium BCE. The present volume contains fourteen songs composed in praise of the various gods of the Mesopotamian pantheon; it is believed that these songs were typically performed in temple cults. Among them are a song in praise of Sud, goddess of the ancient Mesopotamian city Shuruppak; a song describing the statue of the protective goddess Lamma-saga in the “Sacred City” temple complex at Girsu; and a previously unknown hymn dedicated to the creator god Enki. Each text is provided in transliteration and translation and accompanied by hand-copies and images of the tablets themselves. Expertly contextualizing each song in Babylonian religious and literary history, this thoroughly competent editio princeps will prove a valuable tool for scholars interested in the literary and religious traditions of ancient Mesopotamia.
Book Synopsis Love Songs in Sumerian Literature by : Yitzhak Sefati
Download or read book Love Songs in Sumerian Literature written by Yitzhak Sefati and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Volume] is a collection of all the sources, published and unpublished, dealing with the love, courtship and sacred marriage of the Mesopotamian love-goddess Inanna (Ishtar) and her divine spouse Dumuzi (Tammuz). This literary corpus composed during the Third Dynasty of Ur and the early Old Babylonian period (ca. 2100-1800 BCE) consist of 27 songs with approximately 1500 lines of poetry"--Jacket.
Book Synopsis New Treasures of Sumerian Literature by :
Download or read book New Treasures of Sumerian Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Editions of 8 new Sumerian literary compositions and a complete Old Babylonian recension of "Ninisina's Journey to Nippur." Includes photographs and analysis."--Publisher's website.
Book Synopsis Tradition and the Poetics of Innovation by : Nicole Maria Brisch
Download or read book Tradition and the Poetics of Innovation written by Nicole Maria Brisch and published by Ugarit Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: N. Brisch examines the literary legacy of the dynasty of Larsa, terminated by Hammurabi of Babylon in 1763 B.C.E. "The dynasties of Isin and Larsa -- fierce rivals in contending for hegemony over Babylonia -- rarely or never acknowledged their Amorite origins openly, but instead affiliated themselves with Sumerian traditions of royal legitimization. This becomes apparent in the literary texts of the Isin and Larsa rulers, which in all but a few cases were composed in Sumerian, a language that to the best of our knowledge was no longer spoken by this time. Thus, the choice of Sumerian for these compositions is in itself significant. It is only with the rulers of the first dynasty of Babylon (...) that we see the beginnings of a movement away from the Sumerian tradition and the replacement by Akkadian as the language of choice in literary texts. The Larsa dynasty, or more precisely its literary heritage, is positioned at the brink of this change from a certain tradition, for example, visible in the heroic literature on Sumerian kings, to certain new developments (...). Because of these innovations the Larsa royal literatur occupies a unique position within the corpus of Sumerian royal literature, which is often perceived as particularly traditional. -- The study of the literary, historical and linguistic contexts of the Larsa Court Poetry is supplemented by the editions of 14 royal hymns and royal letters mainly of Sin-iddinam and Rim-Sin.
Book Synopsis I Studied Inscriptions from Before the Flood by : Richard S. Hess
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:
