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Pacifying the hearts of the gods : Sumerian Emesal prayers of the first millenium BC / Uri Gabbay.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks Folio PJ4041 .G33 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gabbay, Uri, 1975- author.
- Series:
- Heidelberger Emesal-Studien ; Bd. 1.
- Heidelberger Emesal-Studien ; 1
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Emesal dialect.
- Sumerians--Religion.
- Sumerians.
- Sumerians--Rites and ceremonies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 356 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm.
- Other Title:
- Sumerian Emesal prayers of the first mlllenium BC
- Place of Publication:
- Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014.
- Language Note:
- In English, includes foreword in German.
- Notes:
- "This book is a revised, expanded, and rewritten version of the first part of my dissertation ... submitted to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2007."--Page [xix].
- "Pacifying the hearts of the gods investigates the corpus of Emesal prayers, i.e., prayers composed in the Emesal register of the Sumerian language that are known from cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of the second millennium BC up to the end of the first millennium BC. ... The content of the prayers is usually lamentful, mourning the destruction of various Mesopotamian cities and temples ..."--Back cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-301) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 3447067489
- 9783447067485
- OCLC:
- 891677196
- Publisher Number:
- 99962290709
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