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Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection
The first in a series of volumes publishing the Sumerian literary texts in the Schøyen Collection, this book makes available, for the first time, editions of seventeen cuneiform tablets, dating to ca. 2000 BCE and containing works of Sumerian religious poetry. Edited, translated, and annotated by Christopher Metcalf, these poems shed light on the interaction between cult, scholarship, and scribal culture in Mesopotamia in the early second millennium BCE. The present volume contains fourteen songs composed in praise of the various gods of the Mesopotamian pantheon; it is believed that these songs were typically performed in temple cults. Among them are a song in praise of Sud, goddess of the...
The Perfect Candidate
Enjoy the Lance Priest / Preacher spy-thriller series. Book I: The Perfect Candidate Book II: The Perfect Weapon Book III: The Perfect Angel Book 3.5: en el Medio Lance Priest is 21, a college student and a part-time used car salesman. He's also a liar, a chameleon, a different person to everyone who meets him. This makes him unique. It also brings him to the attention of the CIA and those tasked with finding that one person who can do what others cannot. Lance may be THE PERFECT CANDIDATE. To prove he has what it takes, Lance must pull off impossible covert missions and defeat deadly operatives plotting to sell nuclear warheads to a murderous regime on the eve of Operation Desert Storm. The...
The Perfect Weapon
To stop a terrorist bomber, you must become one. Preacher is back! Lance Priest is unique. In his 24 years, he simply accepted that he was different, detached and deadly. He was recruited by the CIA three years ago to use his unusual talents and do things others can not or will not. Lance is a gifted liar, a human chameleon, an accomplished killer with the ironic nickname Preacher. He is THE PERFECT WEAPON to battle the nation's deadliest enemies. Love was never on his radar. Then he met Marta, a rogue KGB agent with death in her DNA. He realized in the moments after meeting - and shooting her - that people can change. Another life is possible. But love will have to wait. A cruel world has o...
Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology
Explores the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East through stories about the gods and their relationships with humankind.
The Gods Rich in Praise
This title contributes to the current academic debate on the relationship between early Greek poetry and the ancient Near East, especially Mesopotamia. It is the first extensive study to be based on a detailed analysis of the ancient texts, consisting in this case of a selection of religious poems mainly in Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, and Greek.
Barkley's Sandbar Christmas Miracle
Gerald and Barkley, his enormous black and white spotted Great Dane, were out for their nightly walk along the Arkansas River. Like usual, they slipped down the riverbank and waded over to one of the many sandbars formed when the water level was low. But this was no usual night. It was Christmas Eve. What happened out there on Barkley's Sandbar that night was also anything but usual. It could only be described as a miracle, a Christmas Miracle. Learn the story that Gerald (and Barkley) have never told. You probably won't believe it, but isn't that what makes miracles so special.
