Enuma Elish: The Seven Tablets of Creation; the Babylonian and Assyrian Legends Concerning the Creation of the World and of MankindCosimo, Inc., 1 gen 2010 - 494 pagine Enuma Elish, the Babylonian version of the story of creation, predates much of the Book of Genesis. Passed down orally for generations until finally being recorded on seven clay tablets, this epic was discovered by 19th-century archeologists among the ruins of the Library of King Ashurbanipal in modern-day Iraq. Translator and editor L.W. King has divided the Seven Tablets of Creation into two volumes, which are combined in this book. In Volume 1, readers will find the English translation of each of the seven tablets, plus sections on the composition of the poem, parallels in Hebrew literature, and the reconstruction and arrangement of the text. In Volume 2, readers will find other accounts of the history of creation, an index, a glossary, and numerous indices and appendices. Religious scholars and anyone interested in human origins will enjoy King's translation of and commentary on this classic, first published in 1902. British classical scholar LEONARD W. KING (1869-1919) was Assistant Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum and professor of Assyrian and Babylonian archaeology at the University of London, King's College. He also wrote Babylonian Magic and Sorcery (1896) and A History of Sumer and Akkad (1910). |
Sommario
xxv | |
xxxi | |
COMPOSITION OF THE POEM | lxvii |
INFLUENCE | lxxix |
AUTHORITIES FOR THE TEXT OF THE POEM ENUMA | civ |
LXXII | cxv |
THE SEVen Tablets OF THE HISTORY OF CREATION | 2 |
THE SECOND TABLET | 22 |
2 | 110 |
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Parole e frasi comuni
a-na Anšar Anshar Anunnaki Appendix Apsū Assyrian tablet Babylonian battle Bēl Berossus Brit catch-line colophon column commentary Conjectural restoration contain copies corresponding Creation legends Creation Series Damascius Delitzsch DINGIR duplicate earth Enuma exalted Fifth Tablet Fourth Tablet fragment reads George Smith gods hath heaven Hebrew i-na Igigi ilāni inscribed Ištar Jensen ki-ma Kingu Laḥamu lu-u Marduk monsters Mummu Neo-Babylonian tablet Nudimmud Obverse Perm phrase Plate poem portions possible practice-tablet preserved previously published probably reference REVERSE cont Šamaš šar scribe Second Tablet Seventh Tablet shalt story suggested šum Sumerian Tabl Tablets of Destiny thou Tiamat title of Marduk traces translation transliteration Txts unto variant reading word Zimmern δὲ καὶ