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The treasures of darkness : a history of Mesopotamian religion / Thorkild Jacobsen.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobsen, Thorkild, 1904-1993.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion.
- Iraq--Religion.
- Iraq.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 273 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Manufacture:
- Westford, Massachusetts : Printed by The Murray Printing Co.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1976.
- Contents:
- Ancient Mesopotamian Religion: The Terms
- Fourth Millennium Metaphors. The Gods as Providers: Dying Gods of Fertility
- Third Millennium Metaphors. The Gods as Rulers" The Cosmos a Polity
- Third Millennium Metaphors. The Gods as Rulers: Individual Divine Figures
- Second Millennium Metaphors. The Gods as Parents: Rise of Personal Religion
- Second Millennium Metaphors. World Origins and World Order: The Creation Epic
- Second Millennium Metaphors. "And Death the Journey's End": The Gilgamesh Epic
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Sally Sullivan and set in Baskerville type."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1977".
- ISBN:
- 0300018444 :
- OCLC:
- 2601378
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