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The Study of the Ancient Near East in the Twenty-first Century
Sixteen essays from the Albright conference held at the Johns Hopkins University charting the course of ancient Near Eastern studies in the twenty-first century. This landmark volume is essential reading for both students and scholars.
Forgiveness from the Storm
Virgil Holmes was born an anxious, unfortunate being. As hard as he tried, anxiety, guilt, and inferority always held him back. He became shy and withdrawn. In his teens, he spent many hours shivering in the darkness of a closet trying to comprehend what was wrong - what was wrong with him? Why was he the way he was? There was no answer. Eventually, the answer would come as an unwelcome companion, but it would come, like it or not. Virgil had the misfortune of being born the genetic duplicate of an ancestor from thousands of years ago. Along with that inheritance, he also inherited responsibility for storms that would follow wherever he went. He was innocent, but simultaneously responsible for the resultant wrath and destruction. Illogical and unfair, but the curse was now his. As a result of cavorting with psychedelic flowers, he is thrust into another dimension, to a beautiful place where he is finally relieved of his burden. He would no longer be the Storm Bringer.
The Curse of Agade
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Enki and the World Order
"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edition of the 472-line Sumerian text, with introduction, translation and commentary, based on 25 published and unpublished manuscripts, mostly from Nippur in what is now southern Iraq.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.
10-S NE-1?
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Mesopotamian Poetic Language
This collection of articles is the result of the second meeting of the Mesopotamian Literature Group (Groningen), held in Groningen from 12 till 14 July 1993. The topics treated by these scholars from six countries range from theoretical issues to specific analyses, from broad structures to linguistic textures, including metaphorical language as well as phonic features; also, various poetical techniques and strategies are studied. The interest is more in the questions that are raised than in the answers given, and the matter of legitimization of our theoretical bases runs throughout most contributions, this being the aim of the Group.
Epics of Sumerian Kings
This volume presents for the first time both the authoritative Sumerian text and an elegant English translation of four Sumerian epics, the earliest known in any language. The introduction discusses the intellectual and cultural context as well as the poetics and meaning of this epic cycle.
