The Sumerians Their History Culture And Character
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Author |
: Samuel Noah Kramer |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 390 |
Release |
: 1963 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226452387 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226452388 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sumerians by : Samuel Noah Kramer
The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is a compendium of what is known about them. The author outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world.
Author |
: SAMUEL NOAH KRAMER |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 398 |
Release |
: 1963 |
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: |
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: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis THE SUMERIANS THEIR HISTORY. CULTURE, AND CHARACTER by : SAMUEL NOAH KRAMER
Author |
: Samuel Noah Kramer |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 424 |
Release |
: 1981 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39076006350479 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis History Begins at Sumer by : Samuel Noah Kramer
Kramer ranked among the world's foremost Sumerologists. . . . The book will interest both the scholar and the general educated reader.--Religious Studies Bulletin
Author |
: Leonard Woolley |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 1965 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0393002926 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780393002928 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sumerians by : Leonard Woolley
Describes the civilization of the Sumerians, who inhabited the land which today is Iraq, in the beginning of the fourth millennium B.C.
Author |
: Hourly History |
Publisher |
: Independently Published |
Total Pages |
: 50 |
Release |
: 2018-09-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1720228035 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781720228035 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sumerians: A History from Beginning to End by : Hourly History
The Sumerians The Sumerians settled in the area known as Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, around five thousand years ago. They produced many fundamental changes to the way in which human societies developed
Author |
: Henry Freeman |
Publisher |
: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages |
: 90 |
Release |
: 2016-07-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781534611344 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1534611347 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sumerians by : Henry Freeman
A legendary civilization vanished under the Fertile Crescent and escaped a fate worse than death until Sumerologists questioned widely accepted truths. The Sumerians reemerged onto the extraordinary timeline of human history. Their tales of kings and gods, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, and their fearless trade in distant lands, during the remarkable Bronze Age, centered in the world’s first city-states that chronicled ancient rivalries and their enduring impact. Inside you will read about... ✓ How We Know What We Know About Sumerians ✓ The Bronze Age – Sumer And Its Contemporaries ✓ How Did The Sumerians Become Civilized? ✓ How Long Were They Around ✓ Primer Of Impact Of Sumerian Ancient Civilization On Our World ✓ What Did They Look Like? ✓ What Shaped Their Worldview? And much more! Our journey relies on excavated and historical evidence to explore their productive fascinations with order and man’s place in the universe. Their application of impressive knowledge helps us unfold their mysterious civilization.
Author |
: Jeremy A. Black |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 444 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0199296332 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199296330 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Literature of Ancient Sumer by : Jeremy A. Black
Sumerian is the oldest written language of ancient Iraq, first written down some 5,000 years ago. Its literature, encompassing narrative myths, lyrical hymns, proverbs and love poetry, provides a stimulating insight into the world's first urban civilization. This is a comprehensive collection.
Author |
: Paul Collins |
Publisher |
: Reaktion Books |
Total Pages |
: 215 |
Release |
: 2021-03-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789144239 |
ISBN-13 |
: 178914423X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sumerians by : Paul Collins
The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world’s earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BCE. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing, and the wheel, and therefore hold an ancient mirror to our own urban, literate world. But is this picture correct? Paul Collins reveals how the idea of a Sumerian people was assembled from the archaeological and textual evidence uncovered in Iraq and Syria over the last one hundred fifty years. Reconstructed through the biases of those who unearthed them, the Sumerians were never simply lost and found, but reinvented a number of times, both in antiquity and in the more recent past.
Author |
: Samuel Noah Kramer |
Publisher |
: Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages |
: 206 |
Release |
: 1944-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781465517463 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1465517464 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sumerian Mythology by : Samuel Noah Kramer
The Sumerians were a non-Semitic, non-Indo-European people who flourished in southern Babylonia from the beginning of the fourth to the end of the third millennium B. C. During this long stretch of time the Sumerians, whose racial and linguistic affiliations are still unclassifiable, represented the dominant cultural group of the entire Near East. This cultural dominance manifested itself in three directions: 1. It was the Sumerians who developed and probably invented the cuneiform system of writing which was adopted by nearly all the peoples of the Near East and without which the cultural progress of western Asia would have been largely impossible. 2. The Sumerians developed religious and spiritual concepts together with a remarkably well integrated pantheon which influenced profoundly all the peoples of the Near East, including the Hebrews and the Greeks. Moreover, by way of Judaism, Christianity, and Mohammedanism, not a few of these spiritual and religious concepts have permeated the modern civilized world. 3. The Sumerians produced a vast and highly developed literature, largely poetic in character, consisting of epics and myths, hymns and lamentations, proverbs and "words of wisdom." These compositions are inscribed in cuneiform script on clay tablets which date largely from approximately 1750 B. C. a In the course of the past hundred years, approximately five b thousand such literary pieces have been excavated in the mounds of ancient Sumer. Of this number, over two thousand, more than two-thirds of our source material, were excavated by the University of Pennsylvania in the mound covering ancient Nippur in the course of four grueling campaigns lasting from 1889 to 1900; these Nippur tablets and fragments represent, therefore, the major source for the reconstruction of the Sumerian compositions. As literary products, these Sumerian compositions rank high among the creations of civilized man. They compare not unfavorably with the ancient Greek and Hebrew masterpieces, and like them mirror the spiritual and intellectual life of an otherwise little known civilization. Their significance for a proper appraisal of the cultural and spiritual development of the Near East can hardly be overestimated. The Assyrians and Babylonians took them over almost in toto. The Hittites translated them into their own language and no doubt imitated them widely. The form and contents of the Hebrew literary creations and to a certain extent even those of the ancient Greeks were profoundly influenced by them. As practically the oldest written literature of any significant amount ever uncovered, it furnishes new, rich, and unexpected source material to the archaeologist and anthropologist, to the ethnologist and student of folklore, to the students of the history of religion and of the history of literature.
Author |
: Vincent Lemire |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2017-04-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226188232 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022618823X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jerusalem 1900 by : Vincent Lemire
Elected Council Members: Citizens, City Dwellers, and Property Owners -- Yussuf Ziya al-Khalidi, the Founding Mayor -- At the Heart of Municipal Action: The Defense of Public Space -- Urbanites All? Public Health, Leisure, and Municipal Finances -- 6. The Wild Revolutionary Days of 1908 -- What Time Was It in Jerusalem? -- The Wild Days of August 1908: Jerusalem's Forgotten Revolution -- Unexpected Fracture Lines -- New Vectors of Lively Public Opinion -- Underneath Communities, Classes? -- 7. Intersecting Identities -- Albert Antébi, Levantine Urbanite -- An "Arab Awakening" in the Chaos of Battle -- Jerusalem and the Parochialism of the "People of the Holy Land"--Jerusalem, the Thrice-Holy City, and the Municipium -- Conclusion: The Bifurcation of Time -- The Bird People -- Ben-Yehuda, the Outsider -- Toward a Shared History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index