Myths of Enki, The Crafty God

This ambitious and well-researched study brings together for the first time translations of the ancient literature concerning the Sumerian god Enki, one of four gods and goddesses who comprised the highest level of the Sumerian pantheon. The very existence of these writings, which date from the Third Millenium B.C., was unknown until about 100 years ago, when their cuneiform script was deciphered. Since then, it has become apparent that Sumerian literature had a profound and enduring influence on both Biblical and classical Greek literature, and so on the literature of the western world as a whole. Kramer, one of the world's leading sumerologists, has prepared these translations from among the scores of works he has published over the last fifty years; John Maier provides a full interpretive framework that places the translations in their broader comparative cultural context. This rare collection will be of interest to students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines from Near Eastern and Biblical Studies to Mythology and Comparative Literature.

Myths of Enki, the Crafty God

Kramer, Samuel Noah

Maier, John

Reference

Oxford University Press

Southern California by Maier, John Bookseller: World of Books Ltd GB (GB) Bookseller Inventory #: GOR005185611 Title: Southern California Author: Maier, John Format/binding: Paperback Book condition: Very Good Quantity available: 1 Binding: Paperback ISBN 10: 0831779284 ISBN 13: 9780831779283 Publisher: Smithmark Publishers This edition first published: August 1990

Southern California

Travel

United States

Smithmark Pub.

Gilgamesh: A Reader

Gilgamesh is the best-known story of the Sumerian hero that has survived from antiquity. Dating from the mid-2nd millenium BC it tells stories of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, adventurer and searcher for the meaning of life, friend of the man from the wilderness, Enkidu. This book adds to current debates on the influence of the epic on western literature.

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers

This ambitious and well-researched study brings together for the first time translations of the ancient literature concerning the Sumerian god Enki, one of four gods and goddesses who comprised the highest level of the Sumerian pantheon. The very existence of these writings, which date from the Third Millennium B.C., was unknown until about 100 years ago, when their cuneiform script was deciphered. Since then, it has become apparent that Sumerian literature had a profound and enduring influence on both Biblical and classical Greek literature, and so on the literature of the western world as a whole. Kramer, one of the world's leading sumerologists, has prepared these translations from among the scores of works he has published over the last fifty years; John Maier provides a full interpretive framework that places the translations in their broader comparative cultural context. This rare collection will be of interest to students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines from Near Eastern and Biblical Studies to Mythology and Comparative Literature.

History

Ancient Civilizations

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