Toward the Image of Tammuz and Other Essays on Mesopotamian History and Culture / Thorkild Jacobsen; William L. Moran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobsen, Thorkild, author.

Contributor:

Moran, William L., editor.

Series:

Harvard Semitic Series

Harvard Semitic Series ; 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

Culturele aspecten.

Geografie, Reisen.

Geschichte.

Kultur.

Religieuze aspecten.

Iraq--Civilization--To 634.

Local Subjects:

Iraq--Civilization--To 634.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (517 p.): 1 Frontispiz, 1 Kte

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this volume, William L. Moran has collected seventeen of Jacobsen's widely scattered essays. Dealing with religion, history, culture, government, economics, and grammar, these pieces are representative of all aspects of Jacobsen's work, but stress his studies in history and religion, the fields in which he made his most important contributions to our knowledge of Mesopotamian culture and the origins of Western civilization. Moran has also included a bibliography of and a lexical index to Jacobsen's writings. Thorkild Jacobsen (Danish pronunciation: yahkobsen]) was a renowned historian specializing in Assyriology and Sumerian literature. Jacobsen received an MA from the University of Copenhagen and then came to the United States to study at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, where he received his PhD. He became a Field Assyriologist for the Iraq Expedition of the Oriental Institute (1929-1937) and in 1946 became Director of the Oriental Institute. In 1962, Jacobsen became a professor of Assyriology at Harvard University, where he remained until his retirement in 1974. He died in 1993. William Lambert Moran (1921-2000) was an esteemed Assyriologist and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Contents

1. Formative Tendencies in Sumerian Religion

2. Mesopotamian Gods and Pantheons

3. Ancient Mesopotamian Religion: The Central Concerns

4. The Investiture and Anointing of Adapa in Heaven

5. The Myth of Inanna and Bilulu

6. Toward the Image of Tammuz

7. Sumerian Mythology: A Review Article

8. Early Political Development in Mesopotamia

9. Primitive Democracy in Ancient Mesopotamia

10. The Reign of Ibbi-Suen

11. The Assumed Conflict Between the Sumerians and Semites in Early Mesopotamian History

12. An Ancient Mesopotamian Trial for Homicide

13. On the at Ur under Textile Industry Ibbi-Sîn

14. The Waters of Ur

15. About the Sumerian Verb

16. Ittallak niati

17. The Akkadian Ablative Accusative

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Lexical Index to Jacobsen's Writings

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-33473-6

OCLC:

1013948644