Babylonian creation myths

by Lambert, W. G., (Wilfred G.)

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Title Statements

Full title :Babylonian creation myths / W.G. Lambert.

Summary

For much of the last half of the twentieth century, W.G. Lambert devoted much of his research energy and effort to the study of Babylonian texts dealing with Mesopotamian ideas regarding creation, including especially Enuma Elish. This volume, which appears almost exactly 2 years after Lambert's death, distills a lifetime of learning by the world's foremost expert on these texts. Lambert provides a full transliteration and translation of the 7 tablets of Enuma Elish, based on the known exemplars, as well as coverage of a number of other texts that bear on, or are thought to bear on, Mesopotamian notions of the origin of the world, mankind, and the gods. New editions of seventeen additional "creation tales" are provided, including "Enmesharra's Defeat," "Enki and Ninmah," "The Slaying of Labbu," and "The Theogony of Dunnu." Lambert pays special attention, of course, to the connection of the main epic, Enuma Elish, with the rise and place of Marduk in the Babylonian pantheon. He traces the development of this deity's origin and rise to prominence and elaborates the relationship of this text, and the others discussed, to the religious and political climate Babylonia. The volume includes 70 plates (primarily hand-copies of the various exemplars of Enuma Elish) and extensive indexes. --

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Eisenbrauns
Place of Publication:Winona Lake, Indiana
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (658 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781575068619, 1575068613, 157506247X, 9781575062471
DOI:10.1515/9781575068619
oclc:ocn861537250
LC Classification:PJ3771.E5
Dewey Decimal:892/.1

Part I. Enūma eliš : The Babylonian epic of creation -- part II. Enūma eliš and Marduk -- part III. Further Babylonian creation tales -- part IV. Other material related to Enūma eliš -- part V. Summary.

Subjects

11.12 Mesopotamian religions Akkadian language Akkadian language -- Texts Akkadien (Langue) -- Textes Akkadiska språket Babylonisk-assyrisk religion Cosmologie babylonienne Cosmology, Babylonian creating (artistic activity) Création Język akadyjski -- teksty Kosmologia babilońska Legends (texts) LITERARY CRITICISM -- African Stworzenie świata Texts