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Author Wolkstein, Diane, author

Title Inanna, queen of heaven and earth : her stories and hymns from Sumer / Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer ; art compiled by Elizabeth Williams-Forte
Edition First edition
Published New York : Harper & Row, [1983]
New York ; Cambridge ; Philadelphia ; San Francisco ; London ; Mexico City ; São Paulo ; Sydney : Harper & Row, Publishers, [1983]
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Description xix, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Inanna's stories and hymns: The Huluppa-tree -- Inanna and the god of wisdom -- The courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi -- The descent of Inanna -- Seven hymns to Inanna
Inanna's stories and hymns -- Commentaries
Commentaries: Sumerian history, culture, and literature / by Samuel Noah Kramer -- The discovery and decipherment of 'The descent of Inanna' / by Samuel Noah Kramer -- Interpretation of Inanna's stories and hymns / by Diane Wolkstein -- Annotations of the art / by Elizabeth Williams-Forte
Summary Translation and retelling of the Inanna stories from the Sumerian
With the publication of this book, we have for the first time in any modern literary form one of the most vital of ancient myths- that of Inanna (known to the Semites as Ishtar), the world's first goddess of recorded history and the beloved deity of the ancient Sumerians. In this groundbreaking work, Samuel Noah Kramer, the preeminent living expert on Sumer, and Diane Wolkstein have retranslated, ordered, and combined the fragmented cuneiform tablets comprising the Cycle of Inanna to created an authentic portrait of the goddess from her adolescence to her completed womanhood and "godship."--Back cover
Notes Translation and retelling of the Inanna stories from the Sumerian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-212) and index
Notes Translation and retelling of the Inanna stories from the Sumerian
Subject Goddesses, Sumerian.
Inanna (Sumerian deity)
Inanna (Sumerian deity) -- Poetry.
Mythology, Sumerian.
Genre/Form Poetry.
Author Kramer, Samuel Noah, 1897-1990, author
Williams-Forte, Elizabeth, contributor
LC no. 80008690
ISBN 006014713X
0060908548 (paperback)
9780060147136
9780060908546 (paperback)