Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.
By Samuel Noah Kramer
Samuel Noah Kramer (September 28, 1897 – November 26, 1990) was one of the world's leading Assyriologists, an expert in Sumerian history and Sumerian language.
SAMUEL NOAH KRAMER – Library of Rickandria
The Sumerians were a non-Semitic, non-Indo-European people who lived in southern Babylonia from 4000-3000 B.C.E.
They invented cuneiform writing, and their spiritual beliefs influenced all successive Near Eastern religions, including:
- Judaism
- Christianity
- Islam
They produced an extensive body of literature, among the oldest in the world.
Samuel Noah Kramer spent most of his life studying this literature, by piecing together clay tablets in far-flung museums.
This short work gives translations or summaries of the most important Sumerian myths.
"A real addition to the body of world mythology."-- American Anthropologist
"No people has contributed more to the culture of mankind than the Sumerians, and yet it has been only in recent years that our knowledge of them has become at all accurate or extensive.
[This book is] our first authoritative sketch of the great myths of the Sumerians, their myths of origins, of creation, the nether world, and the deluge.
The book . . . makes entrancing reading and for the general reader it opens up a whole new vista undreamed of before."--Theophile J. Meek
Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C. (Forgotten Books) - Anna’s Archive (1961)
Sumerian Mythology : A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C. - Anna’s Archive (1997)
Sumerian Mythology : A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C. - Anna’s Archive (1998)
Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.
Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C. – Library of Rickandria