Samas Religious Texts

Author : Clifton Daggett Gray
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ISBN 13 : 9781331164647
Total Pages : 72 pages
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Download or read book The Samas Religious Texts written by Clifton Daggett Gray and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Samas Religious d104s: Classified in the British Museum Catalogue as Hymns, Prayers, and Incantations; With Twenty Plates of d104s Hitherto Unpublished, and a Transliteration and Translation of K. 3182 Until within a comparatively short time the publication of Assyrian Religious d104s has been of a desultory character, few attempts having been made systematically to bring out complete series of texts. Among continental scholars three marked exceptions may be mentioned. To Tallqvist for his publication of Die assyrische Beschworungsserie Maqlu, and to Zimmern for his publication of Beitrage zur Kenntnis der babylonischen Religion, as well as to Knudtzon for his Assyrische Gebete an den Sonnengott, students of Assyrian and Babylonian religion are deeply indebted. Among English Assyriologists a similar debt is due to King for his careful editing of The Prayers of the Lifting of the Hand, and to Thompson for The Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon. Such work as these men have done has been greatly facilitated by the appearance, two years ago, of the fifth volume of the Catalogue, but there remains a vast amount of material yet to be brought to light. In his preface to Babylonian Religion and Mythology, King well says: "Although so much has been done in recent years to explain their religious literature, no finality in the matter must be expected for some time to come, certainly not as long as any important religious text remains unpublished." For this reason, then, these religious texts relating to the worship of Samas have been published, in the hope that they may form a small contribution to the history of Babylonian religion, the writing of which, as Zimmern has remarked in the Vorwort of his Beitrage zur Kenntnis der babylonischen Religion, is "today as yet a thing impossible." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."