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Uniform Title Enuma elish. English
Title Babylonian creation myths / W.G. Lambert
Published Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (658 pages) : illustrations
Series Mesopotamian civilizations ; 16
Mesopotamian civilizations ; 16.
Contents 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
Summary 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. -- Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed November 1, 2023)
Subject Creation.
Cosmology, Babylonian.
Akkadian language -- Texts
creating (artistic activity)
creation (doctrinal concept)
11.12 Mesopotamian religions.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
Akkadian language
Cosmology, Babylonian
Creation
Creation.
Język akadyjski -- teksty.
Kosmologia babilońska.
Stworzenie świata.
Akkadiska språket.
Babylonisk-assyrisk religion.
Genre/Form Texts
Legends (texts)
Form Electronic book
Author Lambert, W. G. (Wilfred G.)
ISBN 9781575068619
1575068613
157506247X
9781575062471
OTHER TI Enuma elish. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80089883