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History begins at Sumer : thirty-nine firsts in man's recorded history / Samuel Noah Kramer.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kramer, Samuel Noah, 1897-1990.
- Standardized Title:
- From the tablets of Sumer
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sumerians.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Third revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.
- Summary:
- "Kramer ranked among the world's foremost Sumerologists. . . . The book will interest both the scholar and the general educated reader."--"Religious Studies Bulletin"
- Contents:
- Education : the first schools
- Schooldays : the first case of "apple-polishing"
- Father and son : the first case of juvenile delinquency
- International affairs : the first "war of nerves"
- Government : the first bicameral congress
- Civil war in Sumer : the first historian
- Social reform : the first case of tax reduction
- Law codes : the first "Moses"
- Justice : the first legal precedent
- Medicine : the first pharmacopoeia
- Agriculture : the first "farmer's almanac"
- Horticulture : the first experiment in shade-tree gardening
- Philosophy : man's first cosmogony and cosmology
- Ethics : the first moral ideals
- Suffering and submission : the first "Job"
- Wisdom : the first proverbs and sayings
- "Aesopica" : the first animal fables
- Logomachy : the first literary debates
- Paradise : the first biblical parallels
- A flood : the first "Noah"
- Hades : the first tale of resurrection
- Slaying of the dragon : the first "St. George"
- Tales of Gilgamesh : the first case of literary borrowing
- Epic literature : man's first heroic age
- To the royal bridegroom : the first love song
- Book lists : the first library catalogue
- World peace and harmony : man's first golden age
- Ancient counterparts of modern woes : the first "sick" society
- Destruction and deliverance : the first liturgic laments
- The ideal king : the first messiahs
- Shulgi of Ur : the first long-distance champion
- Poetry : the first literary imagery
- The sacred marriage rite : the first sex symbolism
- Weeping goddesses : the first Mater Dolorosa
- U-a a-u-a : the first lullaby
- The ideal mother : her first literary portrait
- Three funeral chants : the first elegies
- The pickaxe and the plow : labor's first victory
- Home of the fish : the first aquarium.
- Notes:
- Originally published under title: From the tablets of Sumer: Indian Hills, Colo. : Falcon's Wing Press, 1956.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kramer, Samuel Noah, 1897-1990. From the tablets of Sumer. History begins at Sumer.
- ISBN:
- 0812278127
- 9780812278125
- OCLC:
- 7571973
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