Sumerian Hymns from Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum

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Author: Vanderburgh, Frederick Augustus,1847-1923
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Sumerian Hymns from Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum

Sumerian Hymns from Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum

$15.30

Sumerian Hymns from Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum

$15.30
Author: Vanderburgh, Frederick Augustus,1847-1923
Format: eBook
Language: English

Sumerian Hymns from Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum

The gods honored in the hymns treated in the following Thesis are Bl, Sin (Nannar), Adad (Ramman) and Tammuz, all deities of the old Babylonian pantheon, representing different phases of personality and force, conceived of as incorporated in nature and as affecting the destinies of men. These gods are severally designated in the hymns as follows: The attributes and deeds belonging to these divinities are adduced from a wide range of literature, beginning with the royal inscriptions of the pre-dynastic periods and ending with the inscriptions of the monarchs of the later Babylonian empire. In fact, the building inscriptions of the Babylonians, the war inscriptions of the Assyrians, the legendary literature, the incantations, as well as the religious collections, particularly the hymns, afford us many descriptions, of greater or less length, of all the Babylonian gods. To aid the student in understanding better the character of the four gods whose hymns have been translated in the following Thesis, I here give a brief descriptive sketch of each of the deities whose praises were sung in the documents which I have chosen to render. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 48094
Author: Vanderburgh, Frederick Augustus
Release Date: Jan 27, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Translator: Vanderburgh, Frederick Augustus, 1847-1923

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