Scott Jones (Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Covenant College) reviews Daniel Fleming and Sara Milstein's "The buried foundation of the Gilgamesh epic: the Akkadian Huwawa narrative" in the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures (Vol.11, 2011)
The book follows the tradition history of the Gilgamesh epic from the Sumerian Huwawa tales to the Old Babylonian version
Read the book in SOAS Library at QED892.1 / 739772
Showing posts with label Sumerian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sumerian. Show all posts
Monday, 21 March 2011
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
A Sumerian literary tour-de-force?
Sumerian Shakespeare is a personal blog by American Sumerologist Jerald Starr devoted to images and textual analysis of the cuneiform tablet #36 from the Library of Congress's collection, which he states is an encoded "literary tour-de-force"
The blog also looks at the the image and portrayal of the Sumerian ruler, Ur-Namma, in sculpture and carved relief, and Starr's own experience learning to read and write Sumerian cuneiform
The blog also looks at the the image and portrayal of the Sumerian ruler, Ur-Namma, in sculpture and carved relief, and Starr's own experience learning to read and write Sumerian cuneiform
Monday, 8 November 2010
Descriptive grammar of Sumerian: new e-thesis
Bram Jagersma's 2010 PhD thesis "A descriptive grammar of Sumerian" has been made available as an e-thesis by Leiden University.
Click here to access the link from the SOAS Library catalogue
Click here to access the link from the SOAS Library catalogue
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