Myths of Enki, the Crafty God

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This ambitious and well-researched study brings together for the first time translations of the ancient literature in regards to the Sumerian god Enki, certainly 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 Millenium B.C., used to be unknown until about 100 years ago, when their cuneiform script used to be deciphered. Since then, it has change into apparent that Sumerian literature had a profound and enduring influence on both Biblical and classical Greek literature, and so forth the literature of the western world as a whole. Kramer, probably the most world’s leading sumerologists, has prepared these translations from some of the scores of works he has published over the past fifty years; John Maier provides a full interpretive framework that places the translations in their broader comparative cultural context. This rare collection might be of interest to students and scholars in a variety of disciplines from Near Eastern and Biblical Studies to Mythology and Comparative Literature.

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