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.

Download or read book The Sumerian Zame Hymns from Tell Ab al b written by Manfred Krebernik and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Urnamma of Ur in Sumerian Literary Tradition written by Esther Flückiger-Hawker and published by Saint-Paul. This book was released on 1999 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new standard editions of all the hitherto known hymns of Urnamma, the founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur (fl. 2100 B.C.), and adds new perspectives to the composition and development of the genre of Sumerian royal hymns in general. The first chapter is introductory in nature. The second chapter presents a general survey of Urnamma's hymnic corpus. The third chapter deals with correlations of Urnamma's hymns with other textual sources pertaining to him. A fourth chapter is devoted to aspects of continuity and change in royal hymnography by analysing the Urnamma hymns in relation to other royal hymns and related genres. Chapter 5 presents editions of Urnamma hymns,

Download or read book Sumerian Hymns from Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum written by Frederick Augustus Vanderburgh and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sumerian Hymns and Prayers to God Nin Ib from the Temple Library of Nippur written by Hugo Radau and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sumerian Hymns and Prayers to God Dumu zi Or Babylonian Lenten Songs written by Hugo Radau and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sumerian Hymns written by Frederick Augustus Vanderburgh and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gods honored in the hymns treated in the following Thesis are Bel, Sin (Nannar), Adad (Ramman) and Tammuz, all deities of the old Babylonian pantheon, representing different phases of personality and force, conceived of as incorporated in nature and as affecting the destinies of men. These gods are severally designated in the hymns as follows: in Tablet 13963, Rev. 1, "O Bel of the mountains;" in Tablet 13930, Obv. 2, "O father Nannar;" in Tablet 29631, Obv. 10, "O Ramman, king of heaven"; and in Tablet 29628, Obv. 3, "The lord Tammuz" (CT. XV, 10, 15, 16, 17 and 19). The attributes and deeds belonging to these divinities are adduced from a wide range of literature, beginning with the royal inscriptions of the pre-dynastic periods and ending with the inscriptions of the monarchs of the later Babylonian empire. In fact, the building inscriptions of the Babylonians, the war inscriptions of the Assyrians, the legendary literature, the incantations, as well as the religious collections, particularly the hymns, afford us many descriptions, of greater or less length, of all the Babylonian gods.

Download or read book Some Sumerian Babylonian Hymns of the Berlin Collection Transcribed and Interpreted written by Mary Inda Hussey and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sumerians written by Samuel Noah Kramer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 390 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 a compendium of what is known about them. The author 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.

Download or read book Sumerian Hymnology written by Mark E. Cohen and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 1981-12-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ersemma is one of two (possibly three) genres of literature written in the Sumerian Emesal dialect. Texts exist in copies from the Old Babylonian period, although they were authored much earlier. They were preserved likely because they were part of a fixed liturgy recited on select days of the month. Mark E. Cohen discusses the characteristics of this genre and its evolution, the circumstances of its composition, and the cultic setting in which it was typically used. He also provides a catalog of examples as well as transliterations and translations of selected texts with commentary. Examples come from the British Museum, the Yale Babylonian Collection, the University Museum Collection, the Oriental Institute, the Staatliche Museen Berlin, and the Metropolitan Museum.

Download or read book Sumerian Hymns from Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum written by Frederick Augustus Vanderburgh and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Collection of the Sumerian Temple Hymns written by Åke W. Sjöberg and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three ulgi Hymns written by Jacob Klein and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

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

Download or read book Two Neo Sumerian Royal Hymns written by Daniel Reisman and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reading Sumerian Poetry written by Jeremy Black and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the oldest form of poetry. Sumer, in the southern part of Iraq, created the first literary culture in history, as early as 2500BC. The account is structured around a complete English translation of the fragmentary Lugalbanda poems, narrating the adventures of the eponymous hero. The study reveals a work of a rich and sophisticated poetic imagination and technique, which, far from being in any sense 'primitive', are so complex as to resist much modern literary analysis.