Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.

Samuel Noah Kramer was Clark Research Professor Emeritus of Assyriology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was also Curator Emeritus of the Tablet Collections.

Title: Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.

Author: Kramer, Samuel Noah

ISBN: 9780812210477

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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Publication Date: 1998-10-29

Number of Pages: 184

Weight: 0.2042 kg

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 *