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Author : Samuel Noah Kramer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : UCAL:B2797054
Author : Samuel Noah Kramer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : UCAL:B2797054
Author : Samuel Noah Kramer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1988-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0812212762
Which civilization had the first system of law? The first formal educational system? The first tax cut? The first love song? The answers were found in excavations of ancient Sumer, a society so developed, resourceful, and enterprising that it, in a sense, created history. The book presents a cross section of the Sumerian "firsts" in all the major fields of human endeavor, including government and politics, education and literature, philosophy and ethics, law and justice, agriculture and medicine, even love and family. History Begins at Sumer is the classic account of the achievements of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq during the third millennium B.C. They were the developers of the cuneiform system of writing, perhaps their greatest contribution to civilization, which allowed laws and literature to be recorded for the first time.
Author : Samuel Noah Kramer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226452326
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 an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he 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. "There are few scholars in the world qualified to write such a book, and certainly Kramer is one of them. . . . One of the most valuable features of this book is the quantity of texts and fragments which are published for the first time in a form available to the general reader. For the layman the book provides a readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture. For the specialist it presents a synthesis with which he may not agree but from which he will nonetheless derive stimulation."—American Journal of Archaeology "An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity."—Library Journal
Author : Henry Freeman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781534611344
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 : SAMUEL NOAH KRAMER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1720228035
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 : Fernando Báez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015079234939
Examines the many reasons and motivations for the destruction of books throughout history, citing specific acts from the smashing of ancient Sumerian tablets to the looting of libraries in post-war Iraq.
Author : Samuel Noah Kramer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781666750720
Author : Samuel Noah Kramer
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814321216
Samuel Noah Kramer is the leading authority on the interpretation and reading of civilization's oldest literature. His life and life's work are so thoroughly intertwined that his autobiography is also the story of the recovery of the language and literature of the Sumerians. From young Talmudist to the patriarch of Sumerology, Kramer recountshis long and distinguished career. Writing for the non-specialist, he paints a panoramic view of Sumerian literature and provides thumbnail sketches of the individuals with whom he collaborated.
Author : Harriet E. W. Crawford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521533384
This work reviews the social and technological developments in Mesopotamia from 3800 to 2000 BC.
Author : Harriet Crawford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136219115
The Sumerian World explores the archaeology, history and art of southern Mesopotamia and its relationships with its neighbours from c.3,000 - 2,000BC. Including material hitherto unpublished from recent excavations, the articles are organised thematically using evidence from archaeology, texts and the natural sciences. This broad treatment will also make the volume of interest to students looking for comparative data in allied subjects such as ancient literature and early religions. Providing an authoritative, comprehensive and up to date overview of the Sumerian period written by some of the best qualified scholars in the field, The Sumerian World will satisfy students, researchers, academics, and the knowledgeable layperson wishing to understand the world of southern Mesopotamia in the third millennium.
Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789144239
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 : Charvát, Petr
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788024631301
The monograph Signs from Silence: Ur of the first Sumerians tells the story of the Sumerian city of Ur at the beginning of the third pre-Christian millennium (c. 2,900–2,700). In terms of research focusing on the emergence of one of the first statehood foci of human history—the pristine state of ancient Mesopotamia—, the author takes up evidence on a critical phase of early Mesopotamian social development. At the beginning of the third pre-Christian millennium, the men and women of Ur took up actions that decided whether the material and spiritual heritage of the preceding Late Uruk cultural-development phase (c. 3,500–3,200), when the first state, organized religion, sciences and the arts had emerged in ancient Mesopotamia, will stand up to the test of time, or whether it will vanish into thin air, as it happened in other civilizational complexes. The author has based his conclusions on the testimony of written texts, archaeology and iconography. Guided by this evidence, he portrays the ways and means by which the men and women of Ur treated the material and spiritual heritage of the Late Uruk civilization. Their activities defined the coordinates system within which the early Mesopotamian state subsequently developed through the nearly three millennia of its existence.
Author : Samuel Noah Kramer,John Maier
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781725282896
This ambitious and well-researched study brings together for the first time translations of the ancient literature concerning the Sumerian god Enki, one of four gods and goddesses who comprised the highest level of the Sumerian pantheon. The very existence of these writings, which date from the Third Millennium B.C., was unknown until about 100 years ago, when their cuneiform script was deciphered. Since then, it has become apparent that Sumerian literature had a profound and enduring influence on both Biblical and classical Greek literature, and so on the literature of the western world as a whole. Kramer, one of the world's leading sumerologists, has prepared these translations from among the scores of works he has published over the last fifty years; John Maier provides a full interpretive framework that places the translations in their broader comparative cultural context. This rare collection will be of interest to students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines from Near Eastern and Biblical Studies to Mythology and Comparative Literature.
