"Le traditionnel récit de l'Arche de Noé narré en six extraits de la Genèse judicieusement sélectionnés. Chaque citation est mise en image sur une double page qui se déploie à la manière d'un petit théâtre dont l'élégance et le raffinement forcent l'admiration. Les feuilles crèm…
Against the long-standing and prevalent belief that Mesopotamian Flood traditions came from very early time in Mesopotamian cultural history, this book argues that the traditions emerged relatively late in Sumerian traditions. Through a systematic examination of the relevant cun…
Against the long-standing and prevalent belief that Mesopotamian Flood traditions came from very early time in Mesopotamian cultural history, this book argues that the traditions emerged relatively late in Sumerian traditions. Through a systematic examination of the relevant cun…
Cuneiform records made some three thousand years ago are the basis for this essay on the ideas of death and the afterlife and the story of the flood which were current among the ancient peoples of the Tigro-Euphrates Valley. Following up on his previous volume, The Babylonian Ge…