Enki and the World Order

A Sumerian Myth
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5015-2253-6
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 233 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 523 g

Reihe: Studies in ancient Near Eastern records

"Enki and the World Order," a Sumerian myth from the early second millennium BCE, depicts the god Enki's reconstitution of the Sumerian world after an unspecified catastrophe. The myth ends with a face-off between Enki and the goddess of love and war, Inana, who is dissatisfied with Enki's allotment of functions to the other goddesses.

This volume presents a critical edition of the 472-line Sumerian text, with introduction, translation and commentary, based on 25 published and unpublished manuscripts, mostly from Nippur in what is now southern Iraq. All the manuscripts, with one exception, have been collated, and there are many new fragments and joins to previously known tablets.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of the Ancient Near East, Scholars in fields of Comparat

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, Jerrold S

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architekten & Architekturbüros

Über Autor(innen)

Jerrold S. Cooper, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore/University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Jerrold S. Cooper, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore/University of California, Berkeley, USA.