Translation and retelling of the Inanna stories from the Sumerian.
Babylonian creation myths
by Lambert, W. G., (Wilfred G.)
fromMesopotamian civilizations
Babylonian creation myths
by Lambert, W. G., (Wilfred G.)
fromMesopotamian civilizations
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 year…
"The eminent Assyriologist Thorkild Jacobsen, author of Treasures of Darkness, here presents translations of ancient Sumerian poems written near the end of the third millennium b.c.e., including a number of compositions that have never before been published in translation. The t…
"The articles included in this book deal with a diverse period of one thousand years, from the Judean exile to Babylon until the fall of the Sasanian Empire. However, one thing is common throughout. All of the studies deal with encounters, especially intellectual encounters, tha…