Babylonian Religion and 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 Religion and Mythology write by Leonard William King. This book was released on 1903. Babylonian Religion and Mythology 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.
Babylonian Religion and Mythology
Babylonian Religion and 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 Religion and Mythology write by Leonard William King. This book was released on 1899. Babylonian Religion and Mythology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Babylonian Creation Myths
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 Standard Babylonian Myth of Nergal and Ereškigal
The Standard Babylonian Myth of Nergal and Ereškigal - 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 Standard Babylonian Myth of Nergal and Ereškigal write by Mikko Luukko. This book was released on 2013. The Standard Babylonian Myth of Nergal and Ereškigal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Myth of Nergal and Ereskigal, preserved in two versions, a Middle-Babylonian one from Tell el-Amarna and a much longer Standard Babylonian one probably composed in Assyria in the early first millennium BCE, tells the story of why and how Nergal, son of Ea, the god of wisdom, descended into the Netherworld by the "ladders of heaven," fell in love with Ereskigal, queen of the Netherworld, and eventually deposed her and usurped her throne. Like all Mesopotamian myths, the story is replete with enigmatic details, puns and intertextual allusions making it a heavily encoded text with hidden levels of interpretation. In allegorical reading, the myth was a complement to the Descent of Istar (SAACT 6), and the mission of Nergal could be associated with that of the king as a heavenly savior sent to the rescue of the sinners. This volume provides an in-depth analysis of the myth and the most complete reconstruction of the Standard Babylonian version yet presented. The reconstructed text is given both in cuneiform and in up-to-date transliteration and translation, complete with a critical apparatus, philological commentary, and a full glossary and sign list. The Introduction also contains an edition and discussion of the Amarna version and an extensive study of the god Nergal in Assyrian sources. Ideal both as a textbook for classroom use and as a resource for non-Assyriologists wishing to study the myth first-hand.
