Babylonian Creation Myths - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Babylonian Creation Myths write by Wilfred G. Lambert. This book was released on 2013-09-26. Babylonian Creation Myths available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For much of the last half of the twentieth century, W. G. Lambert devoted much of his research energy and effort to the study of Babylonian texts dealing with Mesopotamian ideas regarding creation, including especially Enuma Elish. This volume, which appears almost exactly 2 years after Lambert’s death, distills a lifetime of learning by the world’s foremost expert on these texts. Lambert provides a full transliteration and translation of the 7 tablets of Enuma Elish, based on the known exemplars, as well as coverage of a number of other texts that bear on, or are thought to bear on, Mesopotamian notions of the origin of the world, mankind, and the gods. New editions of seventeen additional “creation tales” are provided, including “Enmesharra’s Defeat,” “Enki and Ninmah,” “The Slaying of Labbu,” and “The Theogony of Dunnu.” Lambert pays special attention, of course, to the connection of the main epic, Enuma Elish, with the rise and place of Marduk in the Babylonian pantheon. He traces the development of this deity’s origin and rise to prominence and elaborates the relationship of this text, and the others discussed, to the religious and political climate Babylonia. The volume includes 70 plates (primarily hand-copies of the various exemplars of Enuma Elish) and extensive indexes.
The Seven Tablets of Creation
The Seven Tablets of Creation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Seven Tablets of Creation write by Leonard William King. This book was released on 2010. The Seven Tablets of Creation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Babylonian Mythology
Babylonian Mythology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Babylonian Mythology write by Don Nardo. This book was released on 2012-09-07. Babylonian Mythology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume looks at Babylonian Mythology, drawing connections between ancient Babylonian culture and its myths, explaining how the beliefs, values, and experiences of that culture are represented in its treasured stories. Readers are treated to a map of ancient Mesopotamia, a family tree of the major gods, a table of major characters with name pronunciations with brief descriptions, sidebars, and fact boxes.
The Babylonian Genesis
The Babylonian Genesis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Babylonian Genesis write by Alexander Heidel. This book was released on 2009-06-24. The Babylonian Genesis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Here is a complete translation of all the published cuneiform tablets of the various Babylonian creation stories, of both the Semitic Babylonian and the Sumerian material. Each creation account is preceded by a brief introduction dealing with the age and provenance of the tablets, the aim and purpose of the story, etc. Also included is a translation and discussion of two Babylonian creation versions written in Greek. The final chapter presents a detailed examination of the Babylonian creation accounts in their relation to our Old Testament literature.
Myths from Mesopotamia
Myths from Mesopotamia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Myths from Mesopotamia write by Stephanie Dalley. This book was released on 2000. Myths from Mesopotamia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The stories translated here all of ancient Mesopotamia, and include not only myths about the Creation and stories of the Flood, but also the longest and greatest literary composition, the Epic of Gilgamesh. This is the story of a heroic quest for fame and immortality, pursued by a man of great strength who loses a unique opportunity through a moment's weakness. So much has been discovered in recent years both by way of new tablets and points of grammar and lexicography that these new translations by Stephanie Dalley supersede all previous versions. -- from back cover.
