Table of Contents

Introduction
A. Heroes and kings
B. Inan and Dumuzid
C. Enlil and Ninlil
D. The moon god Nanna-Suen
E. The warrior gods Nergal, Numusda, and Ninurta
F. Love and sex
G. The natural order
H. The hymnic genres
I. Scribes and learning
J. The Decad, a scribal curriculum

About the Author

Jeremy Black is University Lecturer in Akkadian and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. Graham Cunningham is Researcher at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. Eleanor Robson is University Lecturer in History of Science and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Gábor Zólyomi is Head of the Department of Assyriology and Hebrew Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

Reviews

This anthology successfully provides a taste of Sumerian literature on a scale never previously attempted. As an academic resource it opens up a previously impenetrable field and will be used in a wide range of university courses. It deserves a wider readership too. Andrew George, THES This excellent little book thoroughly deserves to find the wide readership it courts, and also to endure as a standard tool for university teaching and research. It is required reading for all who are interested in ancient intellectual cultures, in the study of the oldest literary forms, and in the field of comparative literature. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society The selections are carefully introduced, given in annotated fresh renderings, and are accompanied by a helpful glossary and bibliographies International Review of Biblical Studies, Vol. 52 The treatment of themes and the individual texts...will open up a new horizon to the interested reader, and offer new prospects to the fortuitous reader. Dina Katz, Bibliotheca Orientalis LXIII, No. 5-6