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

Sumerians: Their History, Culture and Character

History

Ancient Civilizations

University of Chicago

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

The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character (Phoenix Books)

University of Chicago Press

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1961. Revised edition.

Sumerian Mythology : A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.

Greenwood Pub Group

Cradle of Civilization

TIME/LIFE

History Begins at Sumer.

DOUBLEDAY

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From the Poetry of Sumer: Creation, Glorification, Adoration

Humor & Entertainment

Univ. Of California Pr.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

From the Poetry of Sumer: Creation, Glorification, Adoration (Una's Lectures) (Volume 2)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

University of California Press

From the Poetry of Sumer: Creation, Glorification, Adoration (Volume 2) (Una's Lectures)

Sumerian Mythology Revised Edition Samuel Noah Kramer "A real addition to the body of world mythology."--American Anthropologist "No people has contributed more to the culture of mankind than the Sumerians, and yet it has been only in recent years that our knowledge of them has become at all accurate or extensive. [This book is] our first authoritative sketch of the great myths of the Sumerians, their myths of origins, of creation, the nether world, and the deluge. The book . . . makes entrancing reading and for the general reader it opens up a whole new vista undreamed of before."--Theophile J. Meek Samuel Noah Kramer was Clark Research Professor Emeritus of Assyriology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was also Curator Emeritus of the Tablet Collections. 1998 | 184 pages | 5 1/4 x 8 | 23 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-1047-7 | Paper | $14.95s | £10.00 World Rights | History

Sumerian Mythology

University of Pennsylvania Press

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