TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lambert,Wilfred George
TI  - Babylonian creation myths
T2  - Mesopotamian civilizations
SN  - 9781575068619
AV  - PJ3771.E5 E3 2013eb
U1  - 892/.1 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Winona Lake, Indiana
PB  - Eisenbrauns
KW  - Creation
KW  - Cosmology, Babylonian
KW  - Akkadian language
KW  - Texts
KW  - Création
KW  - Cosmologie babylonienne
KW  - Akkadien (Langue)
KW  - Textes
KW  - creating (artistic activity)
KW  - aat
KW  - creation (doctrinal concept)
KW  - 11.12 Mesopotamian religions
KW  - bcl
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - African
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - gtt
KW  - Język akadyjski
KW  - teksty
KW  - jhpk
KW  - Kosmologia babilońska
KW  - Stworzenie świata
KW  - Akkadiska språket
KW  - sao
KW  - Babylonisk-assyrisk religion
KW  - Legends (texts)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I. Enūma eliš : The Babylonian epic of creation -- part II. Enūma eliš and Marduk -- part III. Further Babylonian creation tales -- part IV. Other material related to Enūma eliš -- part V. Summary
N2  - For much of the last half of the twentieth century, W.G. Lambert devoted much of his research energy and effort to the study of Babylonian texts dealing with Mesopotamian ideas regarding creation, including especially Enuma Elish. This volume, which appears almost exactly 2 years after Lambert's death, distills a lifetime of learning by the world's foremost expert on these texts. Lambert provides a full transliteration and translation of the 7 tablets of Enuma Elish, based on the known exemplars, as well as coverage of a number of other texts that bear on, or are thought to bear on, Mesopotamian notions of the origin of the world, mankind, and the gods. New editions of seventeen additional "creation tales" are provided, including "Enmesharra's Defeat," "Enki and Ninmah," "The Slaying of Labbu," and "The Theogony of Dunnu." Lambert pays special attention, of course, to the connection of the main epic, Enuma Elish, with the rise and place of Marduk in the Babylonian pantheon. He traces the development of this deity's origin and rise to prominence and elaborates the relationship of this text, and the others discussed, to the religious and political climate Babylonia. The volume includes 70 plates (primarily hand-copies of the various exemplars of Enuma Elish) and extensive indexes. --
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