The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and CharacterThe Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world. "There are few scholars in the world qualified to write such a book, and certainly Kramer is one of them. . . . One of the most valuable features of this book is the quantity of texts and fragments which are published for the first time in a form available to the general reader. For the layman the book provides a readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture. For the specialist it presents a synthesis with which he may not agree but from which he will nonetheless derive stimulation."—American Journal of Archaeology "An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity."—Library Journal |
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Reseña de usuario - Et Alia - GoodreadsThis book is absolutely wonderful! It's a brilliant, concise, easily-digested, scholarly-without-obscurantism overview of Sumerian culture! I simply cannot recommend this enough for Sumerian ... Leer reseña completa
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Índice
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D SAMPLE DATEFORMULAS | 327 |
E SUMERIAN KING LIST | 328 |
| 331 | |
G DITILLAS court decisions | 335 |
| 336 | |
I FARMERS ALMANAC | 340 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Abzu according Agade Agga Akkad Akkadian ancient Anunnaki Aratta barley Biblical boat bring brought built charge city-state composition consisted culture cuneiform decipherment decrees deity destroyed Dilmun divine documents Dumuzi Dynasty Eannatum earth edubba Ekur Elamites Eninnu Enki Enkidu Enlil Enmerkar ensi of Lagash ensi's Entemena epic Erech Eridu excavated father field follows Gilgamesh goddess gods grain Gudea Gutians hand heart heaven holy hymns Ibbi-Sin Inanna inscribed inscriptions Ishbi-Erra Isin King List kingship was carried Kish known Lagash lament land lapis lazuli lines lord Lugalbanda Lugalzaggesi Magan Martu Meluhha Mesannepadda mother mountain Museum myth Nanshe nether world Ningirsu Ninhursag Ninlil Ninurta Nippur palace passage poem poet prayer reigned rulers Sargon scholars scribes Semitic shekel shrine Shulgi silver slave steles stone Sumer Sumerian literary Sumerian school Sumerian word temple third millennium B.C. tion translation Tummal turn Umma Ummaite Ur-Nammu Urukagina wife
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Página 149 - God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew : for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till, the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Página 193 - I too, will be served thus; verily 'tis so. Man, the tallest, cannot reach to heaven, Man, the widest, cannot cover the earth, Not (yet) have brick and stamp brought forth the fated end, I would enter the 'land,' I would set up my name, In its places where the names have been raised up, I would raise up my name, In its places where the names have not been raised up, I would raise up the names of the gods.
Página 240 - Library is based at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, Europe's largest institution specializing in the study of languages and cultures of Africa and Asia.
Página 336 - Nunamnir— to the princeship of the land in order to establish justice in the land, to banish complaints, to turn back enmity (and) rebellion by the force of arms, (and) to bring well-being to the Sumerians and Akkadians...
Página 153 - Enlil, the leading god of the Sumerian pantheon, and plead with him to save her and not let her be put to death in the Nether World. If Enlil refuses, Ninshubur is to go to Ur, the city of the moon-god Nanna, and repeat his plea. If Nanna, too, refuses, he is to go to Eridu, the city of Enki, the god of wisdom, who "knows the food of life," who "knows the water of life," and he will surely come to her rescue.
Página 124 - Lipit-Ishtar ... to the princeship of the land in order to establish justice in the land, to banish complaints, to turn back enmity and rebellion by the force of arms, (and) to bring well-being to the Sumerians and Akkadians...
Página 282 - The dove droops not the head, The sick-eyed says not "I am sick-eyed...
Página 123 - Sumerian thinkers, in line with their world view, had no exaggerated confidence in man and his destiny. They were firmly convinced that man was fashioned of clay and created for one purpose only: to serve the gods by supplying them with food, drink, and shelter, so that they might have full leisure for their divine activities.
Página 291 - ... Asia — Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Hittites, Hurrians, Canaanites, and Elamites — to name only those for which positive and direct evidence is available at the moment — had found it to their interest to borrow the cuneiform script in order to inscribe their own records and writings. For the adoption and adaptation of this syllabic and logographic system of writing, which had been developed by the Sumerians to write their own agglutinative and largely monosyllabic tongue, demanded...
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| Título | The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character Página 422 de Phoenix Books |
| Autor | Samuel Noah Kramer |
| Edición | ilustrada, reimpresa, revisada |
| Editor | University of Chicago Press, 1963 |
| ISBN | 0226452387, 9780226452388 |
| N.º de páginas | 355 páginas |
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