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Enheduana

Author : Sophus Helle
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300264178
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Enheduana written by Sophus Helle and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world's first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian "Helle's translation feels urgent, incandescent, stripped of academic cladding. . . . The growing popularity of Enheduana gives all of us readers a chance to discover another lineage--and to bring this poet and her imagination flashing back to life again."--Nilanjana Roy, Financial Times Enheduana was a high priestess and royal princess who lived in Ur, in what is now southern Iraq, about 2300 BCE. Not only does Enheduana have the distinction of being the first author whose name we know, but the poems attributed to her are hymns of great power. They are a rare flash of the female voice in the often male-dominated ancient world, treating themes that are as relevant today as they were four thousand years ago: exile, social disruption, the power of storytelling, gender-bending identities, the devastation of war, and the terrifying forces of nature. This book is the first complete translation of her poems from the original Sumerian. Sophus Helle's translations replicate the intensity and imagery of the original hymns--literary time bombs that have lain buried for millennia. In addition to his translations, Helle provides background on the historical context in which Enheduana's poems were composed and circulated, the works' literary structure and themes, and their reception in both the ancient and the modern world. Unjustly forgotten for millennia, Enheduana's poems are essential reading for anyone interested in the literary history of women, religion, the environment, gender, motherhood, authorship, and empire.

Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart

Author : Enheduanna
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292752429
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart written by Enheduanna and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Princess, Priestess, Poet

Author : Enheduanna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Princess, Priestess, Poet written by Enheduanna and published by . This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in 2300 BCE, Sumerian high priestess Enheduanna became the first author of historical record by signing her name to a collection of hymns written for forty-two temples throughout the southern half of ancient Mesopotamia, the civilization now known as Sumer. Each of her hymns confirmed to the worshipers in each city the patron deity's unique character and significance. The collected hymns became part of the literary canon of the remarkable Sumerian culture and were copied by scribes in the temples for hundreds of years after Enheduanna's death. Betty De Shong Meador offers here the first collection of original translations of all forty-two hymns along with a lengthy examination of the relevant deity and city, as well as an analysis of the verses themselves. She introduces the volume with discussions of Sumerian history and mythology, as well as with what is known about Enheduanna, thought to be the first high priestess to the moon god Nanna, and daughter of Sargon, founder of one of the first empires in human history.

The Exaltation of Inanna

Author : William W. Hallo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Exaltation of Inanna written by William W. Hallo and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Humming the Blues

Author : Cass Dalglish
Publisher : CALYX Books
ISBN 13 : 9780934971928
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Humming the Blues written by Cass Dalglish and published by CALYX Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inspired by Nin-me-'sar-ra, Enheduanna's song to Inanna."

Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia

Author : Charles Halton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110705205X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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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.

Women and Religion in the Ancient Near East and Asia

Author : Nicole Maria Brisch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501514822
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Women and Religion in the Ancient Near East and Asia written by Nicole Maria Brisch and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent years have seen an upswing in studies of women in the ancient Near East and related areas. This volume, which is the result of a Danish-Japanese collaboration, seeks to highlight women as actors within the sphere of the religious. In ancient Mesopotamia and other ancient civilizations, religious beliefs and practices permeated all aspects of society, and for this reason it is not possible to completely dissociate religion from politics, economy, or literature. Thus, the goal is to shift the perspective by highlighting the different ways in which the agency of women can be traced in the historical (and archaeological) record. This perspectival shift can be seen in studies of elite women, who actively contributed to (religious) gift-giving or participated in temple economies, or through showing the limits of elite women’s agency in relation to diplomatic marriages. Additionally, several contributions examine the roles of women as religious officials and the language, worship, or invocation of goddesses. This volume does not aim at completeness but seeks to highlight points for further research and new perspectives.

Covenant

Author : Savage Tempest
Publisher : 3wordsfrom
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Covenant written by Savage Tempest and published by 3wordsfrom. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helping a stranger can get you killed. One... Space is a dangerous place filled with pirates and Reapers. Two... We still don’t have full control of our ship. But I refuse to stand by and watch an Alliance ship get destroyed by Reaper fighters. The crew says that we should mind our own business, but as the new captain of the Wraith—it’s my call. And I made a bad call. The stranger is way too powerful, and he knows far more about us than he should. He even knows the Wraith’s mission—unlike us. This mysterious stranger is willing to fill in the gaps of our missing memories. For a price. A price that might include laying waste to an entire planet—or worse… infecting the whole galaxy.

Weavers, Scribes, and Kings

Author : Amanda H. Podany
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190059044
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Weavers, Scribes, and Kings written by Amanda H. Podany and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This sweeping history of the ancient Near East (Mesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia, Iran) takes readers on a journey from the creation of the world's first cities to the conquest of Alexander the Great. The book is built around the life stories of many ancient men and women, from kings, priestesses, and merchants to bricklayers, musicians, and weavers. Their habits of daily life, beliefs, triumphs, and crises, and the changes that they faced over time are explored through their written words and the archaeological remains of the buildings, cities, and empires in which they lived. Rather than chronicling three thousand years of kingdoms, the book instead creates a tapestry of life stories through which readers come to know specific individuals from many walks of life, and to understand their places within the broad history of events and institutions in the ancient Near East. These life stories are preserved on ancient cuneiform tablets, which allow us to trace, for example, the career of a weaver as she advanced to became a supervisor of a workshop, listen to a king trying to persuade his generals to prepare for a siege, and feel the pain of a starving young couple who were driven to sell all four of their young children into slavery during a famine. What might seem at first glance to be a remote and inaccessible ancient culture proves to be a comprehensible world, one that bequeathed to us many of our institutions and beliefs, a truly fascinating place to visit"--

Contemporary Approaches to Mesopotamian Literature

Author : Dahlia Shehata
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004697578
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Approaches to Mesopotamian Literature written by Dahlia Shehata and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume lays theoretical and methodological groundwork for the analysis of Mesopotamian literature. A comprehensive first chapter by the editors explores critical contemporary issues in Sumerian and Akkadian narrative analysis, and nine case studies written by an international array of scholars test the responsiveness of Sumerian and Akkadian narratives to diverse approaches drawn from literary studies and theories of fiction. Included are intertextual and transtextual analyses, studies of narrative structure and focalization, and treatments of character and characterization. Works considered include the Standard Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic and many other Sumerian and Akkadian narratives of gods, heroes, kings, and monsters.

Inanna

Author : Diane Wolkstein
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060908548
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Inanna written by Diane Wolkstein and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1983-08-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period. "A great masterpiece of universal literature."--Mircea Eliade

The Sumerians

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 178914423X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book The Sumerians written by Paul Collins and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world’s earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BCE. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing, and the wheel, and therefore hold an ancient mirror to our own urban, literate world. But is this picture correct? Paul Collins reveals how the idea of a Sumerian people was assembled from the archaeological and textual evidence uncovered in Iraq and Syria over the last one hundred fifty years. Reconstructed through the biases of those who unearthed them, the Sumerians were never simply lost and found, but reinvented a number of times, both in antiquity and in the more recent past.

Translation and the Classic

Author : Paul F. Bandia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003831818
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Translation and the Classic written by Paul F. Bandia and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a range of accessible and innovative chapters dealing with a spectrum of genres, authors, and periods, this volume seeks to examine the complex relationship between translation and the classic, and how translation makes and remakes (and sometimes invents) classic works for new audiences across space and time. Translation and the Classic is the first volume in a two-volume series examining how classic works fare in translation, how translation is different when it engages with classic texts, and how classic texts can be shaped, understood in new ways, or even created through the process of translation. Although other collections have covered some of this territory, they have done so in partial ways or with a focus on Greek, Roman, and Arabic texts or translations. This collection alone takes the reader from 1000 BCE up to the digital age in a sequence of chapters that encompass areas including philosophy, children’s literature, and pseudotranslation. It asks us to consider translation not just as a mechanism of distribution, but as one of the primary ways that the classic is created and understood by multiple audiences. This book is essential reading for those taking Translation Studies courses at the senior undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as courses outside Translation Studies such as Comparative Literature and Literary Studies.

Uppity Women of Ancient Times

Author : Vicki León
Publisher : Conari Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573240109
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Uppity Women of Ancient Times written by Vicki León and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piquant and witty collection excavates 200 pyramid-builders, poets, poisoners, physicians, power brokers and panderers of ancient times.

Back to School in Babylonia

Author : Susanne Paulus
Publisher : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
ISBN 13 : 1614910995
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Back to School in Babylonia written by Susanne Paulus and published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume—the companion book to the special exhibition Back to School in Babylonia of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago—explores education in the Old Babylonian period through the lens of House F in Nippur, excavated jointly by the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania in the early 1950s and widely believed to have been a scribal school. The book's twenty essays offer a state-of-the-art synthesis of research on the history of House F and the educational curriculum documented on the many tablets discovered there, while the catalog's five chapters present the 126 objects included in the exhibition, the vast majority of them cuneiform tablets.

Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks

Author : Carol S. Lipson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079148503X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks written by Carol S. Lipson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on ancient rhetoric outside of the dominant Western tradition, this collection examines rhetorical practices in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, and China. The book uncovers alternate ways of understanding human behavior and explores how these rhetorical practices both reflected and influenced their cultures. The essays address issues of historiography and raise questions about the application of Western rhetorical concepts to these very different ancient cultures. A chapter on suggestions for teaching each of these ancient rhetorics is included.

Gilgamesh

Author : Sophus Helle
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300251181
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Gilgamesh written by Sophus Helle and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace "Sophus Helle's new translation . . . [is] a thrilling, enchanting, desperate thing to read."--Nina MacLaughlin, Boston Globe "Looks to be the last word on this Babylonian masterpiece."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post Gilgamesh is a Babylonian epic from three thousand years ago, which tells of King Gilgamesh's deep love for the wild man Enkidu and his pursuit of immortality when Enkidu dies. It is a story about love between men; loss and grief; the confrontation with death; the destruction of nature; insomnia and restlessness; finding peace in one's community; the voice of women; the folly of gods, heroes, and monsters--and more. Millennia after its composition, Gilgamesh continues to speak to us in myriad ways. Translating directly from the Akkadian, Sophus Helle offers a literary translation that reproduces the original epic's poetic effects, including its succinct clarity and enchanting cadence. An introduction and five accompanying essays unpack the history and main themes of the epic, guiding readers to a deeper appreciation of this ancient masterpiece.